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Can Democrats Get Their Voters Off the Couch? (capitalandmain.com)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I ignored the next paragraph because it doesn't sometimes matter, it always matters. Racism doesn't suddenly start working because a person made a mistake. It might latch on to a mistake, but it can and will work without it. That is what I believe happened this election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And you base that on what?

Even if you are correct, that just means that the Democrats failed to create a movement capable of motivating voters to override innate bigotry. If voters honestly believed that Democrats would make their lives better, gender wouldn't matter.

How many people would have ever believed we would elect a black president with a vaguely Muslim sounding name in 2008 before it happened? Not that I'm a fan of Obama, but his 2008 campaign demonstrates that bigotry can be overcome.