Tag Archive 'Blacks'

Reaching new demographics

Bookworm on Nov 07 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized

One of the things that this election most vividly illustrated is that the lockstep political beliefs Democrats envision don’t really exist within their own party:  Blacks and Hispanics turned out in droves to help power Obama into the White House, but they were the same demographic that, in California, helped Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage [...]

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Bitterness and anti-immigrant attitudes

Bookworm on Apr 15 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Identity politics, Immigration

It turns out that Barack Obama might have been on to something with his bitterness speech. In case you’ve forgotten, he said:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and [...]

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