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With ‘Better Deal’ platform, Democrats chase white votes instead of proven coalitions
New economic plan relies heavily on populist rhetoric designed to appeal to disaffected, working-class white voters
... Phillip Thompson, president of the NAACP’s Loudon County, Virginia chapter, was not impressed with the economic strategy recently released with much fanfare by Democratic leaders.
Thompson expected to hear Democrats plot a course to rebuild the coalition that elected Barack Obama president in 2008; he wanted to hear specific proposals that would excite black voters, like himself, to more fully participate in upcoming elections, instead, Thompson heard an appeal to chase working-class white voters who fled the party last year and helped elevate Donald Trump to the White House ...
Sam Fulwood III
Aug 2
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With ‘Better Deal’ platform, Democrats chase white votes instead of proven coalitions
New economic plan relies heavily on populist rhetoric designed to appeal to disaffected, working-class white voters
... Phillip Thompson, president of the NAACP’s Loudon County, Virginia chapter, was not impressed with the economic strategy recently released with much fanfare by Democratic leaders.
Thompson expected to hear Democrats plot a course to rebuild the coalition that elected Barack Obama president in 2008; he wanted to hear specific proposals that would excite black voters, like himself, to more fully participate in upcoming elections, instead, Thompson heard an appeal to chase working-class white voters who fled the party last year and helped elevate Donald Trump to the White House ...
Sam Fulwood III
Aug 2
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