John McCain, is unknown by 4 in 10 Hispanics, even though she leads 50 percent to 35 percent among them, according to the same Univision survey. Everyone else can see that she’s a corrupt, lying sleaze.
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At Obama’s Tuesday speech, meanwhile, 100 Clinton staff members combed the crowd, armed with clipboards and smart phones, signing up volunteers to make phone calls on Saturday. Tough assignment. What do you say?
The president then got serious and went on to tell the audience that he would consider it a “personal insult, an insult to my legacy” if black Americans didn’t come out in huge numbers to vote for Hillary Clinton.
“It’s a pivotal moment in time for African Americans and the actions we take today will reflect upon future generations”, said A. Shuanise Washington, president and CEO of the CBCF, a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy, research and educational organization.
But rather than pinning that potential Clinton-Trump photo finish on the Democratic nominee’s “flaws” or campaign-trail miscues, the president said a close outcome is nearly inevitable because “structurally we’ve become a very polarized society”. Tolerance is on the ballot.
In the years following Obama’s historic 2008 victory, Democrats have puzzled over how to turn out the president’s coalition of supporters when he’s not on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot!
“Ending mass incarceration, that’s on the ballot right now”, he said. My vote doesn’t matter, they’re both lousy candidates, ‘ ” said a senior White House official who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter; it all matters”.
Finally, on Friday, the Republican nominee held an event at the new Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., where he spent time talking up the new facility, introducing a number of veterans who’ve endorsed him, and then said, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period”.
But here’s hoping that the more we call it out, the more we can begin to recognize it and correct for it. Pardoning some inmates is great and all, but it seems to me there should be at least one or two executive orders directed toward the black community you could have done. If that happens, collectively the black community will have an incredibly awkward, too-embarrassed-to-make-eye-contact kind of relationship with Barack and Michelle Obama.
But is there really a need to drill down into young Black voters?
Wimes wasn’t finished. She stressed to the president just how offended many where over his comment… and we’re talking plenty offended. They may talk amongst themselves about their issues with him, but they will accept none of it from anyone else. “So we might as well support somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality”, Obama said. “Instead they say, ‘Oh no, you can’t do anything, that’s freedom of expression'”. But his main message was about voter turnout among blacks.
“We have always known it would be a battle in Pennsylvania”, said RNC spokesman Rick Gorka. In no way does that mean Hillary is entitled to the same consideration.
“Just like the Democratic Party doesn’t own our votes, neither do you”, she wrote. A nation’s election is not about how he personally feels.
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Without using their names, Obama said that the American people face an important choice between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump.
