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rmrd0000 — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 04:36:38 +0000

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The point is that Democrats are coming into majority black neighborhoods to let people know that their votes are important. Read the article, “they take our votes for granted”. Perez and Sanders when on an outreach tour to white neighborhoods specifically to gain the votes of white voters. Where was the black outreach. Ossoff did not reach out to blacks in Georgia. Black Democrats feel their votes are taken for granted. I gave links showing Virginia Democratic outreach to whites in general and rural whites. Why does the concept of outreach to black communities seem so difficult?

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CVille Dem — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:52:14 +0000

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Although there certainly are specific concerns that blacks have, I can’t think of one single issue that you identify as “white “ outreach that doesn’t equally concern black families and individuals. .

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rmrd0000 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:41:11 +0000

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Democrats go out of their way to do outreach to white voters

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-obsession-with-white-voters-could-cost-democrats-the-virginia-governors-race/

Democrats do outreach to rural white voters

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/21/559215292/in-virginia-signs-the-democratic-party-is-still-struggling-to-reach-rural-voters

Whites do not sit back and wait for Democrats to come to them.Democrats automatically come to white voters. Black voters want the same consideration.

Articles like this and

artappraiser — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:35:13 +0000

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Articles like this and statements like your headline strike me as living in the past and backwards.

If people and interest groups want both current parties to survive at this point, they have to reach out to the parties, actually join them as card carrying members and take them in the direction where they want them to go and that other people will find attractive and want to join in.

To just sit on the couch until "outreach" comes to you has it backwards. Strikes me as absurd. The parties are dying.

The Bernie movement is helping kill one, the Trump movement the other.

Granted, there will be an influx of money and support right now from the majority of donors angry about Trump to the Democratic party. But that is going to be a temporary things and doesn't mean the main trajectory is going to change.

They need bodies in the parties that aren't retirement age. They need interesting people to want to run for office and others to support them.

To act like there is someone out there working at DNC that has it all together, that is the boss man that is going to reach out to the people sitting on the couch is to fly in the face of reality. They don't have it all together, they need help, they need input and fresh bodies. They are a bunch of old people still arguing the last election.So I myself am negative about that, I don't think that's going to happen.

The platform becomes what the party members make it. It's as simple as joining up instead of protesting in the streets.

Do no outreach in the black

rmrd0000 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:11:55 +0000

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Do no outreach in the black community then complain that not enough blacks voted.

Do this during a midterm, then declare that blacks don’t vote in the midterms

Tom Perez and Keith Ellison continue the stupidity.

This has been a big problem

artappraiser — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:46:42 +0000

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This has been a big problem my whole life: only old white people reliably come out to vote in mid-term elections. And more often than not, what they go for is "throw the bums out" rather than any reliable ideological result, seems like they basically want gridlock,like they are conservative in wanting gridlock. The "Gingrich revolution" was particularly devastating and shocking when it happened, after Clinton/Gore was installed, all due to low turnout by those left of center.