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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Biden, Abrams.

If Warren, Beto. (possible dent in texas)[/quote]

But she needs more black support - that's the thing
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So Abrahms.  I’m all for the two woman ticket. If you need a guy, Booker. [/quote]

Why does the race or ethnicity of the pick matter?  Shouldn't we go with the best person for the job?  [/quote]

The best person for the job IS the person who can best reach out to African Americans.  That is (at least part of) the job.[/quote]
Bigoted people never see AAs as an important and underrepresented voting bloc. Any recognition of them as an important group and valued part of America is “pandering” whereas white “Christian” men are the default. Our bigoted friend above needs to seriously sit and think why, in his mind, electing AA or female candidates means we’ve just elected a token, or an affirmative action hire rather than the best person for the job. Listen, we’ve had enough pandering to white men with mediocre to dire candidates. Time to open up the field and let some real excellence result from actual competition rather than the thumb on the scale there has been for several millennia.[/quote]

DP:  I don't know why anyone is concerned about AA at this point because the fastest growing voter demographic is Hispanics.  It is almost like white men and African Americans are making their last grasp of power as important minorities in the United States.   The future of this county is Hispanic and I don't understand why the AAs remain the "major minority" when their numbers are falling as fast as white voters.
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We will be better as a country when we no longer care about voting blocks based on race and gender.  [b]The fact is that more African American voters pulled the lever for Trump than they did for Mitt Romney.[/b]  How does that work into your voting block math?[/quote]

That would take the destruction of the Republican party as we know it today since its core is the biggest single race & gender voting block in American politics.

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Romney was running against Obama so the comparison of AA turnout vs Trump is statistically irrelevant.

And you sound like the sort that says: "I don't see race (or gender), I just see human beings". Of course that would be ideal--but the US is not there yet.

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The fact is that we have different experiences.  White men have monopolized government since the founding of the country.  It has not worked out for our country. We will be better when we have accurate representation by electing women and POC.

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