Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumThe Quiet Death of the "White Bernie Bro" Attack
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/bernie-sanders-white-bernie-bro-race-2020-democratic-primary-pew-pollBY
CARL BEIJER
The media used to say Bernie Sanderss coalition was too white and male. Now that thats so obviously not true, they should admit why they really hate Bernie his class politics
Bernie Sanders faced ferocious criticism in the media throughout the 2016 primaries and central to that critique was what the Washington Post called Bernie Sanderss big black-voter problem. Black voters, we were told, decisively rejected Sanderss politics and, by extension, left flank challenges to the Democratic establishment. And the proof was in the polls: overwhelming majorities of black voters preferred Hillary Clinton.
Its impossible to overstate how much coverage this narrative received in just about every major outlet you can name: the New York Times, the Washington Post (again), Vox, Slate, Time, MSNBC, In These Times, the Atlantic, and so on. In all of these articles, we find variations on the same argument that Joan Walsh rehearsed in the Nation:
Sanders has won whites by crafting a class-based appeal that minimizes, and sometimes even diminishes, the role that racism plays in creating American social and economic inequality . . . In 2016, all of these calculations have hurt him with the Democratic base.
Was it this something about his politics that explained his polling among black voters? That was certainly conventional wisdom among almost all of the media. But in the New Republic, Jamil Smith flagged a different explanation: the Sanders campaign insisted that he was simply less familiar to voters of color than Clinton. And this, I noted at the time, was borne out by the data, which showed Bernies favorability and preference among black voters rising in direct proportion to his name recognition:
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
JI7
(89,275 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Autumn
(45,120 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,485 posts)Not sure I agree with the author's detective work there.
Here's a thought: maybe they just preferred Clinton and her stances on issues that were important to them.
Nah.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)Im remembering The Economic justice is really real and Social justice is actually less real and will just automatically happen with Economic justice argument.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,176 posts)Jacobin a member of a democratic club established in Paris in 1789. The Jacobins were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 17934.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)but don't call Bernie a socialist!
Sid
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)Bernie and his gang know the end is near and they are desperately trying to gain attention with these ridiculous attacks on the media.
Regarding the "Bernie Bro" stuff.. yes its probably dead now that there are more and better candidates for that demographic to go to.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
yerop
(89 posts)thank you
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Uncle Joe
(58,426 posts)Thanks for the thread Gj.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Did I miss the memo?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TwilightZone
(25,485 posts)It's also based on a lot of faulty premises, the most obvious being that the author doesn't seem to understand that there was more to Clinton's preference among black voters than media influence.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mcar
(42,376 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JudyM
(29,280 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
kcr
(15,320 posts)<a href="https://www.people-press.org/2019/08/16/most-democrats-are-excited-by-several-2020-candidates-not-just-their-top-choice/pp_2019-08-16_2020-democratic-candidates_0-03-2/"><img width="1024" height="1018" src="?w=1024" class="attachment-large size-large" alt="Democratic primary preferences vary widely by age, education, and religious affiliation" /></a>
Bernie doesn't help by his campaign hiring choices and doing things like going on the Joe Rogan show.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden