The Brains: gameshowhost: And not a single EV to be had from it.

/for what now, fifty years running?
//maybe we can let senator tim scott be the featured speaker

Nixon's Southern Strategy still at work

The Third Way wing helping shaft the labor movement made things worse.

"But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What's the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama's gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we're gonna provide health care for every American. So we'll go down a series of talking points.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background -- there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-no-surprise-that-ha_b_96188

Kubo: Is there a reason why all primaries can't be held on the same day? I live in NJ, one of the last states to vote in primaries. Kinda sucks having virtually no say in the party's nominee.

In 2020, NJ had to wait till July for their primaries (pushed back from June due to the pandemic), and by that time, the primaries were all but over.

full8me: lordjupiter: full8me: Thank the baby Jesus!  The open primaries of South Carolina will certainly be a more accurate litmus test for the Democratic Party nation-wide than those yokels caucusing in Iowa.

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Congratulations, today you learn about "gerrymandering", "population density", and "demographics".

SC went 43% for Biden in 2020 and was key in his winning the Dem nomination.

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"South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for the old, centrist white guy" and then "The state didn't even break for him in the general election" isn't exactly as strong of a point as you might think it is.  Also, you might want to think about how the average Democratic voter in South Carolina might answer a survey of their position on social issues vs. the national average for Democratic voters.

The split in the 2020 primaries wasn't Black vs. White, but old vs. young. Older voters overwhelmingly supported Biden, younger voters overwhelmingly supported Sanders.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/05/super-tuesday-black-voters-analysis-recap

Younger voter turnout increased in 2020, it's just that the older voter turnout increased, too.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/stop-blaming-young-voters-not-turning-out-sanders/608137/