There’s a good illustration of the point I’ve been making about the problems that low voter turnout may pose for Hillary Clinton in this account at the Washington Post of the plight of the black voters of Jacksonville, Florida:
While supporting Obama became a cause for many here rather than a typical campaign, Clinton faces a higher bar in making a case that she, too, can be a transformative figure.
Her campaign is planning to build on the multiethnic coalition that turned out to support Obama. Running to be the first female president, Clinton will also try to generate Obama-like enthusiasm among new voters — those who were too young to turn out for Obama or have not previously been engaged with politics.
Yet as her allies prepare to register voters and expand the black electorate, her candidacy presents residents here with a question: If Obama’s presidency didn’t do more to help African Americans, then how could hers?
As long as the Democratic Party is confident it can depend on their votes, it will have other priorities.
The question the minority community will have to answer for themselves i snot so much whether the next POTUS will help them, but rather will that person harm them. As I keep telling you our government and politicians are bad enough that you don’t often get to vote FOR people, but rather AGAINST the worse alternative. Granted, that is a tough call at times.
Steve