MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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"Against the odds, Jones might be able to bring together a new coalition. If he succeeds, it will open the door for other changes. If he fails, Democrats must learn to stop ignoring their core voters between campaigns and start appealing on kitchen table issues across race lines."
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I think this is the link you wanted.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/alabama-senate-race-doug-jones-roy-moore/
Doug Jones has to energize the black vote in a state where black voters don’t feel that their votes count. Doug Jones has to knock on the doors of black voters. I hope he has already done this because I think the last day for registration in Alabama was Monday.
The winning formula is a large black turnout giving Jones 90%of their votes along with votes from 70% of other ethnic minorities, and 35% of the white vote in Alabama.
The formula for Democratic Party success is energizing unenthusiastic black and minority voters and appealing to white Democratic voters with core Democratic values. Trump,supporters are not going to be converted.
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 10:23am
If Roy Moore wins, we will be told that it is because Southerners do not like to be told what to do. The truth that white Alabamans support a pedophile for the Senate and a racist for President will be pushed to the background.
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/roy-moore-will-win-the-alabama-senate-seat-because-folk-1820767461
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 10:36am
Thanks RMRD. Apparently, there continues to be a problem with the software for posting In the News. I have corrected the link and cut and pasted Jackson's final paragraph into the description.
by HSG on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 11:04am
They also need drivers licenses or state id, which in the Black Belt in the lower 3rd can be hard to come by with few state offices open. And then they need to find a polling station close enough. And if the white folk see the black folk energized, they might become *more* energized, and it's all for naught. The perils of Southern living....
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/28/2017 - 11:55am
It did work for Jackson long ago. I remember the true shock and awe of him doing phenomenally well with what is now sloppily labeled "the white working class" and back then known as "Reagan Democrats" when he won the Michigan presidential primary in 1988 and had the most delegates at the time. For a minute in time it seemed like he could be president, really. A lot of the powers that be thought so, like the NYTimes. Because back then, a lot of that demographic definitely had racist leanings and they still voted for him. It was really really surprising.
What it proved to me: that the right personality can win a lot of that cohort over, no matter the color of skin. Mho: Bernie ain't got that kind of personality. Just that simple.
Is not about past lives. Everybody that voted for Jackson knew he had not just a liberal past life, but leaned towards radical. It's how you act and what you say when you're running.
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 1:45pm
this op ed today reminds me that he basically did the same thing:
Trump Ran for the ‘Forgotten.’ Then He Forgot Them.
By ROBERT KUTTNER
He and his band of Wall Street alumni want to run the economy like Robin Hood in reverse.
And he did it without winning the actual majority vote, just by targeting the forgotten in the right districts. It was all on how he acted and what he promised during the campaign and the persona he projected on top of his television persona.
To this day, he targets such audiences with local yahoos who also speak for them, in a Jesse Ventura or Jesse Jackson way. I.E., when he goes to Arizona, he flogs the anti-immigrant thing with support for Arpaio or the like. Do you really think he cares that much? It's merely opportunism, using an issue he knows how to rant on. If all he got was boos, he'd change it or drop that demographic and go for another.
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 2:05pm
In 1988, Jesse Jackson got 12% of the total Democratic white vote. The majority of his votes came from black voters who accounted for 90% or more of his votes. BTW Michigan was a Caucus in 1988. Jackson won 32% of the white vote in Oregon.
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/us/jackson-share-of-votes-by-whites-triples-in-88.html
Barack Obama got 43% of the white vote in 2008. He got 39% of the white vote in 2012.
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/02/05/130647/what-about-white-voters/
We can deal with the truth.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 3:43pm