Obama won on minority votes. He only won 39% of the white vote in 2012, and presumably Hillary Clinton would have greater support amongst white voters; since she quite frankly does not look like the president. As it stands now according to a WSJ poll, the Secretary has slightly lower favorability numbers than the president among white voters (Zitner). But, this question is being asked in the vacuum of yes or no favorability of one candidate, contrary to Election Day where voters would be picking between her and someone else. In that case the Secretary should pick up white women voters who would prefer her to the GOP candidate. However, she cannot focus on picking up white votes at the expense of minority votes. The Black vote in …show more content…
This is excellent news for the Secretary’s hope of winning minority voters in the general due to her ability to win them over in this early stage. However, Secretary Clinton must find ways to preserve this level of support. African American voter turnout had record highs of 65% and 66% in ’08 and ’12 respectively (Walter,1). While this turnout was a piece of a larger trend, the chance to vote for the first black President could have overinflated these numbers. Obama pulled down 95% and 93% of the black vote in the general elections, and Sec. Clinton must find a way to replicate those results. She will not have the support based on shared demographics that the president benefitted from. The secretary is a rich white woman and that demographic difference from her predecessor will require her to find different ways to connect to this voting bloc. Specifically, she will need to run a color conscious campaign, in contrast to the relatively color blind campaigns that the President ran. How can she run a color conscious campaign without alienating the white voters? She just needs to follow these three points. First, win the endorsements of noncontroversial black figures. She has already begun this process by gaining support from Magic Johnson, John Legend, and Pharrell Williams. She also isn’t just picking up celebrity support, she also has earned endorsements from Senator Cory Booker, and Representative John Lewis. These could be considered
Author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and an associate professor here at Ohio State, wrote an article “Why Hilary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote.” This article not only touches on how Hilary Clinton is only using black people as her “winning card (Alexander, 2)” in the 2016 Election, but also her past decisions she made as the wife of the 42nd President of the United States that should be taken into consideration by black voters. Mrs. Clinton and Bernie Sanders are the two Democratic Party presidential candidates. Although Bernie Sanders promises “a political revolution that will bring universal healthcare, a living wage, an end to rampant Wall Street greed, and the dismantling of the vast prison state...(Alexander, 5),” Hilary Clinton seems to be receiving all of the black votes, according to recent polls. Alexander explains that because many African Americans believed (and still believe) that Bill Clinton was the first “black president,” Ms. Clinton will receive several black votes.
As one of the most powerful African American women in American politics today, Maxine Waters yields respect from both her allies and adversaries. (Dowd 8/22/83) As a member of the House of Representatives, who holds great command, Ms. Waters has a obligation, one might say a calling, to truly serve her constituency, to fight their struggles, to raise consciousness regarding the state of American society today, and to lend her constituency hope.
African American women’s leadership in the community is translating into political power. What has once been seen as a political liability, gender and race, is now turning into political capital. Just as African American women used their exclusive perspective to further social justice movements, they are using that it in the political world and are being just as successful. Their presence in local, state, and federal government is increasing. Because of their ability to connect to those they represent and think outside of the box, African America women are becoming very successful political actors. Since they are able to weave traditional
As stated in the previous paragraph, Hilary has support from elderly African American women. However, America might be able to see another Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Hilary Clinton because Hilary aims to provide benefits for “Our Girls” . Twenty-four-year-old Stephanie Arroyo admits that Hilary was “more in touch with the black and Puerto Rican communities, or any other low-income community ”than Obama. Furthermore, Sharyn O’Halloran, a political science professor at Columbia University, claims that Stephanie articulated the thoughts of many African American and Latino women . O’Halloran has noted that Hilary had an edge over Obama in matters that mattered the most to black women such as education, health care, and the economy .
It also gives her an opening to refocus the conversation from her progressive credentials to the importance of winning in November – electability one of the few areas where she’s scored well with the progressive grassroots.
There are roles played both in race and gender played within the presidential election. The Republican party has not done well in the African American community compared the Democratic Party specifically for the Obama Presidential Candidacy. The volume number of voters, mainly colored, came to support in 2012 showing African Americans supported Republicans at 11%, and now it has shifted to Democrats at 80% after the "New Deal". African Americans did not vote for people who had the same identity as them. There was no popularity within the Latino race whatsoever. It is not about race or gender, but now as of 2016 is is. Everyone's vote should be counted the same, because we as humans are created
Second, Clinton’s Black endorsements will sway the general African-American population to vote for her. Clinton’s strategic plan to use Black endorsements to her campaign’s advantage is shown in the aforementioned column, Key Bloc of Black Mayors to Back Hillary Clinton. Author, Perry Bacon Jr., writes: “Clinton has made courting African-Americans activists a key part of her campaign, from attending the annual gala for the Congressional Black Caucus to meeting with key figures in the ‘Black Lives Matter’ [movement]” (NBC News). It is essential to note that Clinton’s ability to “court” Black socioeconomic and political figures she has inevitably allowed her to received a large faction of their approval nationally. Consequently, these endorsements will ultimately persuade the general Black public to vote for Clinton because they are influence by the decisions of the nation’s Black leaders. African-American endorsements represent more than just fiscal support for Clinton’s campaign, rather it gives her the “she is one of us” Black appeal for her presidential
The National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) introduces Ariana Ayu as their most up - to - date Executive Board Member to this growing 43 - year group whose objective is to take on, coach, and elect competent women politicians (wtrf.com, 2015). In 2014, NWPC supported Alison Lundergan (Kentucky), Senator Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), and Senator Kay Hagan (North Carolina) as the running candidates for the US Senate. In addition to that, NWPC also supports Terri Sewell (Alabama), Ann Kirkpatrick (Arizona), Heidi Hall (California), and Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut) as the candidates for the U.S. House of
Even at this day and age, African Americans aren’t taking pride in the fact that we have the right to vote now. For example, racial minorities, especially black Americans, played a pivotal role in Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential wins. Skip forward to this year’s election of Clinton and Trump. The Census Bureau confirmed what most of us already knew, that both minority and black voter turnout took a decided downturn in last November’s elections. We did not always have a choice or even a say so in most matters, if any. Now we have a voice in the say in how things were governed and now that we do, I would hope to see all African Americans jumping at the chance to be a part of the decision making.
Wise invalidates the argument that the election of a person of color to Presidency means the country has smashed racism, by noting that the argument is akin to claiming Pakistan or Israel had smashed sexism by electing a female head of state. His undeniable and most important information is, of course, the factual data he presents. Some of these are: an average white family's net worth is twenty times that of an average black family (and eighteen times that of an average Latino family); a white person with a criminal record has better chances of being called back for job interviews than a black person with no criminal background; dark-skinned immigrants earn about seventeen percent less than light-skinned immigrants even if both groups have
This document will discuss the way Condoleezza Rice overcame racial and sexist discrimination in the civil war struggle and Jim Crowe laws in Birmingham. It will also discuss my reasons for choosing Condoleezza Rice, obstacles leading to his success, importance of education to the individual, motivation to achieve, how she inspired me to pursue educational and professional success. This paper will also conclude with a summary of this discussion.
The election of President Obama marks the most noteworthy political accomplishment for African Americans in the United States during the post-civil rights revolution, thus bringing about a change in the country’s social and political landscape that was steeped in racial discrimination since the founding of this great nation. Because social and political conditions are subject to constant change, President Obama’s
She won Texas and Deep South. Also, she won Massachusetts. She showed he toughness and opened up the kind of lead that will be very challenging to overcome. I think her victory in Massachusetts was keyed by her performance among wealthier voters, according to the exit poll. Moreover, this victory might upset Bernie Sanders because it’s in the backyard of Vermont, where Sanders scored 86.1%. Over the South, as in South Carolina, African Americans scratched wins for Clinton. Looking at the numbers, it's unmistakable that a "firewall" is simply the wrong metaphor to describe this support; the black voters made a tidal wave to support Clinton. She won no less than 80 percent of African American voters in Texas, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. She took 90 percent in Arkansas, and won the black vote in Alabama 92-6. In her victory speech, Hillary Clinton declared “What a Super Tuesday!” that means she is so happy with what she approached and she is willing to fight against Donald Trump in the General Election. She also said “America never stopped being great.”
In fact, everyone wants to be loved, admired, valued, and recognized and accepted by other; especially, now, women want to prove their abilities, powers, and stand up to society. In her speech, she highly mentioned about the benefits for women and how she will work with them to make that come true. Thus, she will get more interested from women; especially, young women. She also mentioned about other community services that she worked with to help other people such as disability students. Additionally, she argued back to Trump that how he divided people and this country by fearing of others and building the wall to stop immigrants. She wants to help and build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants. By that way, she uses all of these desires from their needs to get to more people to accept her judgement to him and follow her as the only good
Obama outspent McCain by two on advertising which would have resulted in more awareness of his policies as well as more exposure to the population. Additionally, he also turned down matching public finance which enabled him to have more flexibility and freedom to spend money on what he liked. Although we see a very sizable increase in smaller donations research shows that the proportion of African American donors has stayed the same which implies that this very significant factor had nothing to do with a surge in African American funding and we can therefore put this feat down to other reasons rather than race. Obama, had a wider platform to win votes, and he used this effectively to convey his personality and future intensions. The popularity of Obama’s personality was also a very significant factor as well as the balance of Joe Biden as vice president and Michelle as second lady. Obama, before becoming a senator, worked as a community organiser for low-income residents in Chicago which made him popular and portrayed him as the obvious candidate for those who wanted change in civil rights and issues facing the lower income population, as well as Michelle supporting