Bernie Sanders Apparently Doesn’t Want to Get a Single Black Vote
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After a long summer spent feuding with #BlackLivesMatter and alienating Obama coalition voters, Senator Bernie Sanders appeared to be going in the right direction with black voters. He released a pretty decent racial justice platform, stopped telling people how his 1960s-era activism gave him a lifetime hood pass, and hasn’t openly pined for white voters in months. None of this appears to have translated in the polls, though, as Sanders’ support remains overwhelmingly white, so Bernie made some moves this week.
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First, he decided that drafting Dr. Cornel West as his most prominent black surrogate would somehow be a good idea, which would have worked if Sanders had a flux capacitor and a DeLorean set to 2007. Here in the present, Cornel West is about as appealing to black voters as a Rand Paul lecture on black party identification. West has been among the most unhinged of Obama critics.
Then, Sanders made an inane charge against President Obama part of his stump. Repeating a claim he’s made several times, Sanders took to MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes to explain that he won’t repeat Obama’s “biggest political mistake”…READ MORE
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