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Seth Meyers: Trump Keeps Showing Us Who He Really Is

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs8/17/2017 6:10:33 am PDT

re: #151 Targetpractice

The reality is that a Dem presidential candidate has not won the majority of the white vote in decades. IIRC, the last time was Clinton in ‘92 and that was due to his being Governor of Arkansas at the time. When he won reelection 4 years later, they were back to voting for the name with the (R) next to it. The Bros largely have a problem with “identity politics” for one single reason: None of the selfish things they want appeal to minority voters in the numbers that they do to white voters. A black voter isn’t putting “free college/college debt forgiveness” or Latino voters clambering for “free health care.” And the things they do, white voters either don’t care about or actively oppose, such as amnesty for “illegals” or addressing racial inequality.

Actually, Clinton did not win white voters in ‘92. It was close(2-3 percent) but he didn’t win them. Last Dem to win white voters was Johnson in ‘64- Civil Rights Act would change that.

FWIW, I think the only reason that Clinton was as close with white voters, is the impact of Ross Perot. Perot won about a fifth of the white vote.