But Hillary Clinton’s African American voter problem is pretty stark. The take away from this article is this stunning graph:
The must read deconstruction of this data is done by the incomparable Al Giordano who blogs over at The Field.
Electability for a Dem is not just being able to win over working class white voters. The Dem coalition is much less homogeneous than the R one is and electability is going to mean bringing along the majority of the usual Dem coalition partners AND this year it means bringing along the newer voters energized by the opportunity to reset the political landscape. If you are a superdelegate listening to Hillary and her crew make the electability argument, you also know that HRC may not be able to count on the most reliable constituency that the Dems have in the general and the current Clinton campaign may be enough to have many stay home or not vote the top of the ticket come November. Certainly, I don’t think that they can send Bill back out to churches to put his legendary preaching skills on display as a way to reconnect folks.
Never in my life have I ever seen anything like this in terms of African American support for a Dem candidate and I am surprised that this is not the story, given how reliable a vote this community has been for the Dems. The electability business cuts both ways and the nonstop focus on working class white voters is a disservice to all of the other constituencies that a Dem must keep while trying to capture independents.