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In reply to the discussion: Cornel West Surrogacy highlights a major problem with the Sanders' campaign's outreach strategy [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)53. After seeing the denizens of GDP moaning about how they "cried like babies" over that ad, I realized
that ad was doing the ONE thing that Sanders didn't need which was appealing to his already committed and INCREDIBLY limited supporters. He needed something that expanded him to minorities more than anything and that ad was NOT it.
Now there's a post in GDP where somebody has actually COUNTED the number of times "minorities" show up in that ad due to the myriad criticism from multiple sources about how white it is. When your ad is so homogeneous that your supporters are actually resorting to time stamping brown faces... holy shit.
If he loses (which I think he will), he has no one but he and his staff to blame.
His staff has failed him in so many ways.
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Cornel West Surrogacy highlights a major problem with the Sanders' campaign's outreach strategy [View all]
Empowerer
Jan 2016
OP
AA voters are very smart, but tend to exercise strategic voting more than anything.
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2016
#93
Why are people who AREN'T black coming into the AA forum in an OP created by a black DUer
Number23
Jan 2016
#42
Actually it was my bad. I didn't see which forum I was in until after I'd posted
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#54
An adorable attempt to excuse your behavior. You could have stopped at "I'm sorry I was
Number23
Jan 2016
#55
I'm not going to continue this. I apologized, and it's not accepted. Got it.
99th_Monkey
Jan 2016
#56
If the only posts you find worthwhile in this forum are ones that discuss your pres candidate in
Number23
Jan 2016
#57
Shows how little you know about this forum. I'm not black, and I've felt very welcomed here.
lunamagica
Jan 2016
#76
This web site is full of places where this kind of belligerance will get you plenty of fans
Number23
Jan 2016
#40
You can post your bewildering and needless rage at nothing everywhere else on DU
Number23
Jan 2016
#44
Cornel West is no longer what he may have been a decade ago for many in the Black community
FrenchieCat
Jan 2016
#6
My point is that the fact that you like West is irrelevant. You are already on the team
Empowerer
Jan 2016
#24
It's not lost on me. I've been told by Black colleagues the same for months now.
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#9
some of my fellow Sanders supporters are totally tone deaf when it comes to the AA community
steve2470
Jan 2016
#18
Despite being a Sanders supporter, I think he's blown it overall with his outreach strategy
steve2470
Jan 2016
#14
yes I wasn't aware of the huge importance of the print edition but it makes perfect sense!
steve2470
Jan 2016
#21
People keep -- RIGHTFULLY -- talking about how much Clinton sucks as a campaigner
Number23
Jan 2016
#47
After seeing the denizens of GDP moaning about how they "cried like babies" over that ad, I realized
Number23
Jan 2016
#53
They started blaming us the second our response to being told for the thousandth time that he
Number23
Jan 2016
#107
Steve, have you seen the 2nd version of his ad? He's responded to the LOUD criticism that the first
Number23
Jan 2016
#114
I agree. Wonder if the denizens of GDP will "bawl like babies" over this one?
Number23
Jan 2016
#116
I love that ad (the new one), that is the Bernie I want to feel good about, if certain people would
randys1
Jan 2016
#118
The ad is consistent with the point I keep making about the focus of the Sanders campaign
Empowerer
Jan 2016
#58
Like I said in the thread on it, it's a good ad in that it is unabashedly pro-Sanders and not anti-
Number23
Jan 2016
#83
Before 2007, Cornel West was seldom on mainstream talk shows. For that matter, neither was
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jan 2016
#100
Black folks have said this time and again ever since Sanders made the bewildering -- and stupid
Number23
Jan 2016
#49
Bitter white folks love their Cornel West who has spent seven years spewing his
underthematrix
Jan 2016
#52
New Poll Shows ‘Surging’ Sanders Losing Ground With the Voter Group He Needs Most
Gothmog
Jan 2016
#77
Cornel West used to come to my Church in Oakland often enough to speak prior to President Obama....
FrenchieCat
Jan 2016
#112