2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why is Hillary Clinton crushing Bernie Sanders among minority voters? [View all]JI7
(90,119 posts)this has been posted so many times by Sanders supporters who want to know why they would support Hillary after that bill. yet they don't even know about the candidate they support.
people have said why hillary has support among minorities. she leads among all minority groups . and it's because she is more connected to the communities. she has more diverse people working with her and she spends a lot of time with different groups. Hillary goes to the minority communities themselves and asks for their votes. she asks for endorsements from leaders of the community .
another problem is many of his supporters are really coming off badly in the way they bring up his past civil rights work. you know Joe Lieberman was also a Civil Rights Activist . it's fine to bring it up in talking about his own biography . but the way it's brought up as why minorities and especially black people should support him comes off condescending and out of touch.
if Sanders wants support from minorities he needs to go to them and ask for it.