Happy Sunday Friends,
Good news and bad news for Hillary Clinton. The good news is that she took the Nevada Caucus by just over 5%. The bad news is that she lost the Latino and the youth vote, and only eeked out a victory by sweeping the African American vote.
This could be problematic for Bernie Sanders down the road, and ironic since his message is clearly aimed at the victims of our rigged economy, and black Americans have suffered more than any other ethnic group.
The Clintons have always been a favorite of the Black community, especially within the political establishment, and as we observed in Nevada and the upcoming South Carolina primary, they have fallen in line behind Hillary.
Even someone I really respected, civil rights champion Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, acted like a complete hack when he announced on national TV that he didn't remember Bernie Sanders being there, when Lewis led the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960's.
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Lewis failed to mention that Sanders worked with CORE, not SNCC, and had been one of the few white men arrested while protesting for black civil rights. The Congressman later apologized to Sanders for his insinuation.
I still believe Bernie's message will begin to resonate with the African American community. You can already see it happening among Black youth, just as it is with youth in general.
Sanders doesn't need a majority of the Black vote to win, He just needs some of it. He was virtually shut out in Nevada, and if history repeats in South Carolina, Bernie will be resoundingly defeated there.
I don't expect him to win next Sunday, but if Sanders can replicate some of what he did with Latino voters in Nevada with Black Voters in South Carolina, he'll have a respectable showing and some genuine momentum moving into Super Tuesday on March 1.
Feeling The Bern has been a contagious phenomenon. I don't see that ending or even slowing down.
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