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Great piece by @janellross & @DartDClark for @nbcnews: Black voters know what they want. On Tuesday, it was Joe Biden. Here's why. nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/bl…
This part:
... and also this part:
This was me trying to make much the same point last week with Brian Williams, @maddow and @NicolleDWallace on last Super Tuesday. msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/jo…
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It's why picking a president is about more than whether you "like" or don't like a candidate you will likely never meet or spend time with. It's about hiring someone to manage the entire federal executive branch. Trump's temperament & business history were a CLEAR foretelling.
I have met countless people who have told me they voted for Jill Stein or didn't vote at all because there was "just something about Hillary Clinton they didn't like." Yet the question: which one -- Clinton or Trump -- would have better managed this crisis answers itself.
Gendered weirdness, which is a thing in our electorate (just ask Liz Warren, Kamala Harris etc) aside, American voters are now experiencing the dire consequences of "rolling the dice to shake things up," or prioritizing negative feelings about demographic change over competency.
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There's a lot that's parallel about then and now. Sanders' platform is similar to Rev. Jackson's back then, while Biden is winning a lot of the states Jackson won in '84 and especially 1988 when he did so well they had to bargain with him at the convention a la DNC post-2016.
In 1988 Jackson won the primaries in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Virginia and D.C and the caucuses in (ironically) Delaware, Michigan, South Carolina and Vermont. He won 11 contests total and nearly 7 million votes. (In '84 he won LA, SC, DC, VA & MS).
Because he had so many delegates but the Dems didn't want to put him on the ticket, they instead offered to give future primary contests proportional instead of winner-take-all, which ultimately is what allowed Barack Obama to grab a delegate lead in 2008 and hold it vs Hillary.
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.@AliVelshi played a clip of Margaret Chase Smith being greeted with laughter as she ran for the Republican nomination in 1964. That was FOUR YEARS after the SRI LANKAN parliament elected Sirimavo Bandaranaike as prime minister & the 1st female elected head of govt in the world.
For whatever reason the U.S. has been uniquely resistant to giving women political power, as governors, Senators, heads of congress (@SpeakerPelosi stands alone) and president, compared to other world powers and Christian, Muslim, Jewish and other religious-majority countries.
Not sure what that's about. Could be a vestige of the country's Puritan roots, or cultural, or coincidental... hard to say. money.com/female-heads-o…
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