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Originally Posted by slapass
The biggest issue is that whites vote and blacks don't. I am talking stats not trying to create issues. If minorities and young people voted and supported a candidate they would win. Wee are ruled by older white conservatives because that is who votes. Clinton got in by walking down the middle of the road and energizing some youth. Hilary is way to liberal to do the same thing and Obama might be able to pull it off.
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That is exactly why the republicans tend to win more often. Their base is the conservative Christian right and say what you will about them, they are organized and they vote. The hard, hippy unwashed left talk a good game, then on election day they smoke a bowl and forget to vote. Young people put Bill Clinton in the white house. Kerry thought they would do the same for him. He bragged a few days before election day about how his campaign had registered the highest number of first time voters in history, then on election day they stayed home.
If the minorities and young turn out in mass, whoever they want will win. It is getting their support and getting them to vote that is the hard part.