Black People Politics : Jan. 7, 2008: The Day Hillary Clinton Lost the Black Vote

[Liberty]

It was a long time ago in an America we would hardly recognize today: Jan. 7 of 2008. The main conversation around Bill Cosby was his conservative positions, not his choice of home beverage. Tracee Ellis Ross was still Joan and not Rainbow. And Dr. Ben Carson was still just the best neurosurgeon in American history.


Presidential candidate, former first lady and Sen. Hillary Clinton came in a distant third to Sen. Barack Obama in the Iowa caucuses and was in the race of her life. The New Hampshire Democratic primary was the next day on Tuesday, Jan. 8; Clinton knew she was going to win, so the campaign was already looking 4,000 miles south to the crucial South Carolina Democratic primary.


Clinton was doing well in the polls in the Palmetto State; in late December of 2007 she was statistically tied with Obama 46 percent to 45 percent among African Americans, who made up half of the Democratic primary voters in South Carolina. If she could hold those numbers for just two more weeks, until the primary on Jan. 26, she would put Obama in a 2-1 hole and reclaim her crown as the inevitable candidate.

Instead, on Jan. 7, 2008, Clinton effectively killed her relationship with African-American voters
with one of the biggest gaffes of her political career. And she’s been digging herself out of a hole ever since. Eight years ago today, at a Dover, N.H., campaign rally, a supporter introduced Clinton with the following line: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.


The introduction was a clear reference to the Kennedy-Martin Luther King Jr.-Obama comparisons that were popular at the time. The Clinton campaign was in a war of words with Obama, trying to paint him as the optimistic dreamer with no real experience, compared with Clinton’s ability to get things done in the real-world trenches. Nevertheless, the suggestion that a prominent African American with national political aspirations might be assassinated struck many voters, especially African-American voters, as the worst kind of race-baiting from the Clinton campaign.

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[jamesfrmphilly]

blacks will still vote for clinton.

 

[Liberty]

blacks will still vote for clinton.

But, why? I don't understand.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

But, why? I don't understand.

we are masochistic.....

 

[Liberty]

we are masochistic.....

I guess so. I hope you're wrong. But right now it looks that way. I think all those AA ministers who are standing in support for Clinton are a big problem for us. I am suspicious of their motives. And, they have the power to deliver whole congregations, people who rely on their judgment alone.

Then we even have the sillier Ministers trying to deliver our vets to Trump.

*smh*