Posted on 06/30/2015 6:09:34 AM PDT by Din Maker
Democratic voters are skeptics this summer. They doubt presidential contenders can deliver. Those doubts depress enthusiasm about next year’s White House contest and could impact turnout for the eventual Democratic nominee.
“It’s because the old political system is uniquely corrupted” in their eyes, Greenberg said. “Voters define corruption as money in politics and Washington power brokers who are self-serving and disconnected from everyday Americans and their concerns. This is why Clinton’s wealth, the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising, her decades lived as a VIP, and her missing emails discourage some voters from accepting the leading Democratic candidate as trustworthy, even if they favor the economic and social policies she stakes out.
Clinton is basically matching Obama’s 2012 support among the key elements of the party’s base, and she’s outpacing his support among white unmarried women. Obama did better in 2012 among minority voters, but according to the survey, Clinton does better among white millennial voters. Clinton fell far behind against a generic Republican ticket among working-class white voters without college degrees.
To succeed Obama, a Democratic candidate has to animate secular voters and what Greenberg calls the rising American electorate (unmarried women, people of color, and younger voters). These slices of the population will make up a majority of the total electorate for the first time in 2016, according to the polls.
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They are three groups that are well-known for their abilities to form a stable society. /////////////////////s
Hopefully they will be so sick of living in a broken country they will do us all a favor and stay home out of apathy.
Stop this nonsense. I have lost any ‘respect’ for Alexis, not that I have a lot to start with.
One you-know-who political party can “generate” as many votes as needed, since SCOTUS ruled against voter ID law from individual state. As such, elections and kabuki from all candidates before the elections are shams / “Broadway” productions.
Citizens should be furious because of the rigged system. And I’ll punch anybody’s face if/when told ‘we deserve the gubmint blah blah blah’.
One promise to provide student loan forgiveness will have them stampeding to the polls.
Hey everyone remember in 2008 when they said GOP voters were suffering from Bush fatigue? Well maybe Dims are suffering from 0bama fatigue? Couldn’t happen to a nicer group!
“It’s because the old political system is uniquely corrupted” in their eyes, Greenberg said. “Voters define corruption as money in politics and Washington power brokers who are self-serving and disconnected from everyday Americans and their concerns.
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Fortunately for the Clintons, the GOP has the same problems.
Aren’t we still suffering from Bush fatigue? America shouldn’t have ruling families.
>>That’s what scares me. Our side does not do well with any one of those three demographics.<<
Frankly, if the GOP candidate can’t convince young people, blacks, and Hispanics that they will be living in a better country with greater opportunity and less corruption under the GOP than under the now-Socialist Democrat Party, then the GOP candidate deserves to lose. Even unmarried women ought to be reachable with a message of opportunity and growth.
Hint: Another Romney isn’t the answer.
The GOP has got to drop its 47% fears and quit assuming that most of the Democrat votes are dependent upon government handouts. Cynicism is not going to win the next election, but it could doom Clinton if the GOP candidate understands how to sell American values, instead of selling America out as the current administration has done, with Clinton’s help, I’d add.
“Frankly, if the GOP candidate can’t convince young people, blacks, and Hispanics that they will be living in a better country with greater opportunity and less corruption under the GOP than under the now-Socialist Democrat Party, then the GOP candidate deserves to lose.”
They don’t listen to anything from the mouth of a White Man. Ever!
I’ve had enough of Bush, see my tagline, but I tired very quickly of that media narrative in 2008. It’s just nice to see it catch up to those leftist thugs, JMO.
>>Fortunately for the Clintons, the GOP has the same problems.<<
Perhaps, but that doesn’t mean the eventual GOP nominee will. The right nominee will be able to draw a sharp contrast between the DC corruption of the past two decades and what the future should hold.
The wrong nominee will be seen as more of the same, and will probably lose.
Obama and company will turn up the race baiting machine.
This Country is divided and it will never be repaired.
It's a Game of Numbers, and our side is the Alamo and their side is Santa Ana.
Unless there is some Silent Majority out there that will save the day, what is happening today will continue on into Perpetuity.
Now the Supreme Court, by decimating the Tenth Amendment, has taken the option away to retreat. There is nowhere to go when we are no longer 50 Sovereign States that make up the Republic. The Rule of Law is just the whim of the Ruling Oligarchs and their co-conspirators in the Judiciary.
We are now the latest incarnation of the Soviet Union.
“Someone who looks like them” won’t be on the ballot...
To VRW: I disagree with your premise that Obama will get the Black vote out for Hillary. They have always hated each other. When she back-stabbed him after the Trade vote, White House operatives said he got “very quiet”. That’s the way a snake does before it strikes a deadly bite. BHO and Valerie Jarrett will NOT help Hillary in ‘16.
They are also the demographics who are least likely to show up at the polls.
This is amazing to me. They are getting almost everything that they want. What’s left? Student loan forgiveness and pot legalization about all I can think of.
They are also the demographics who are least likely to show up at the polls.
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You are correct. And, I have said for months that the Black vote in 2016 will be down at least 5% from ‘08 and ‘12. They’ve had their Black Prez. The new has worn off; the novelty is gone. I may be underestimating at 5%.
Perhaps you are right. But, Valerie Jarrett is the key word.
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