You ever notice that the DNC panders more to a certain demographic.
Why was Debbie W. Schultz head of the DNC and not Donna Brazile, only until the heat got on that tail.
Both market (pander) in different ways, Clinton and Trump that is, and maybe even Jill Stein some. Kaine has more of a policy issue that an image issue, which is how it should be.
Most of the time this theater of the sElections comes down to popularity via image and authenticity. If the candidate has a tainted image and comes off as lying, deflecting and blaming (not just embellishing and being crass and careless with words), the only thing left is the policy they present.
The Confederate thing is confusing, because I have tried to gather information on it that is not based in political banter, where Democrats tend to steer away from while Repubs slip up in photos with it.
It may be a family thing, where some of their ancestors fought for the Confederates, and that story is a bit more murky than social commentary cares to explore.
Black soldiers fought for the Confederacy, and some will use this to say "look". Realizing there were war time banners vs. flags that were flown during the enslavement regime of the colonial states, some may consider the war time flag a symbol of bravery, whether we agree with it or not.
And from what I have read and heard (hearsay, gotta love it), Bill Clinton signed legislation designing a flag including the honoring of the confederate states.
As Governor, Bill Clinton Kept ‘Confederate’ Star On The Arkansas Flag
Jun 24, 2015
WASHINGTON — Many Republican presidential contenders say the question of whether to keep the Confederate flag flying outside South Carolina’s Statehouse is a matter for South Carolinians to work out among themselves. Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton tend to say that the flag — a symbol of racism and oppression to many — ought to come down, especially in the wake of last week’s racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston. (Clinton has not made an official statement about South Carolina’s flag since the shooting, but in 2007 she did say she “
would like to see it removed“ from the Statehouse grounds.)
But the former secretary of state, who is now running for president, is not the first Clinton to weigh in on the matter of the Confederacy. The state flag of Arkansas sports 25 white stars and four blue ones. And in 1987, while serving as governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton signed a
bill affirming that one of those blue stars is there in honor of the Confederate States of America.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/bill-clinton-arkansas-confederate_n_7638542.html