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Harris 2020

wasupaloopa

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1. I wonder at times if we aren't underestimating

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2019, 06:27 PM

May 2019

black voters when we say we need a person of color to win the black vote.

I think a minority or a woman brings into the mix some minority and women voters who would have been disinterested in the past.

But women and minorities who have been engaged in the past will not need the extra incentive to vote.

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Opinion: The Real Electable Democrat Is Kamala Harris [View all] Kaleva May 2019 OP

I wonder at times if we aren't underestimating wasupaloopa May 2019 #1

Black voters were actually slow to warm up to Obama... Wounded Bear May 2019 #2

Well I am pulling for Kamala because I think she would wasupaloopa May 2019 #3

Yeah, I'm sporting her pic in the Primaries forum... Wounded Bear May 2019 #5

Black voters being "energized" to turn out, is not the problem. They will. And Harris FailureToCommunicate May 2019 #4