It goes without saying that Joe Biden was the Vice President of America’s first mixed race President…
While other’s run-in g for the Democratic Presidential nom in action are raising TONS of money to spend on ads?
Biden does NOT to…
Blacks, Browns and Yellows KNOW who he is…
Before the actual voting began Biden owned the minority vote in the polls….
He STILL holds smaller leads with it after the two small states that had few if any minorities have voted…
We now have the other candidates trying to dislodge minority voters from Biden in the upcoming contests where minority votes comprise more that 50% on Democrats in many primary states…
Can the others grab enough to challenge Biden’s natural advantage?
“You’re now seeing voters of color, who are the backbone of the Democratic Party, particularly black women, flex their electoral muscle,” said Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina state legislator and influential Democrat in the state. “My mom and her friends will decide who the nominee is and who goes toe to toe against Donald Trump.”
A third of voters in Nevada, whose caucuses conclude Saturday, are Latino or black. In South Carolina, which votes on Feb. 29, nearly two-thirds of expected Democratic voters are black. Most Democratic voters in the 2016 Texas and Alabama presidential primaries were nonwhite, according to exit polls, as were more than a third of the voters in Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. All of those states, along with heavily minority California, will vote on Super Tuesday, March 3.
“This is the season where the candidates will now face the Democratic Party. By that I mean the diversity that is the strength of the party,” said Donna Brazile, a longtime strategist who served as interim Democratic Party chair during the 2016 election.
Biden’s unsteady turn — a fourth-place finish in Iowa preceded his decline in New Hampshire — has given an opening to rivals to make their own arguments to black and Latino voters. Bloomberg and another billionaire candidate, Tom Steyer, already have made inroads among black voters, polls have suggested.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) successfully attracted young Latino and African American voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and has risen in polls among nonwhite voters in other states as well. But he has had difficulty attracting older nonwhite voters, who are more reliable at casting ballots…..
image…Politico
This post is self delusional.
Biden has no momentum and is literally stumbling into these states badly wounded, with little to indicate that there is going to be this rejuvenation hinted at here.
Even here in S.C., presumably his firewall, he is limping toward the finish line with at beast a50/50 chance at victory which,if it comes, will likely be narrow ,which will be so noted.
I like Joe Biden ,will probably still vote for him(although I would vote for Bloomberg if he were on the ballot) ,but I’m trying to be realistic.
I see little chance of him making a comeback .
That was said about him from day one…
Likely he ‘stumbles’ into second on Saturday and stumbles imo First in SC. and could very well stumble into the lead after Super Tuesday and stumble into the nomination and even stumble into the White House and people would be STILL saying Bernie Sanders HAS this just like four years ago….,
We’ll see….
The guy just ain’t got enough ‘flash’ i guess ?
You and i will vote for him but THAT don’t mean shit ….Just like the rest of people who will …
I pity the people out there that will have to swallow hard if Trump is right and ole Joe comes out on top….
My wife might have it right in saying Democrats make it a hobby since Trump of screwing/fighting THEMSELVES instead of getting rid of Trump….
As someone (not alone on this blog) who’s followed presidential elections since 1964, this has so far been a relatively polite, non-destructive contest.
It may look as if Democrats are fighting among themselves, instead of against Trump and Trumpery, but that’s because of genuine (if not profound) differences in background and approach.
And it’s not (as in 1940. 1952, 1968 or 1980) a destructive distraction for a sitting Democratic president. Establishment Democrats may treat Joe Biden as if he were an incumbent — just as they so regarded Hillary Clinton in both 2008 & 2016 — but he’s not.
Sitting or former Vice Presidents actually have a rather mediocre record in getting elected (G. H. W. Bush was the first incumbent VP to win the Presidency since Van Buren): see Nixon, Humphrey, Mondale, Gore, et al.
Ok…
Ur Right DSD….
But sometime it DOES seem frustrating to watch from the dyelines while the GOPer’s match lock step behind their King….
I think Biden does still have a shot at the nomination. But, as I said earlier, he will have to earn it. I don’t see him making himself available to the media as others have – which is only a good strategy if he has reason to believe that he might make a fool of himself during the interview. Right now, it appears that Biden will also lose Nevada – and a second place finish is probably the best he can do. If he finishes below second place (which is very possible), then he will likely loses some of his current support in SC. Right now, I don’t see any reason that someone who was planning to vote for someone else in SC will now vote for Biden.
Biden has to win either NV or SC to have any chance.
I’m agreeing with Biden on coming in second…
A close finish with Sanders Saturday would be fine….
He needs to get SC by a decent margin…
Sanders underperforming would help Biden on Super Tuesday as I point out in the post I just did on that days Southern States