Democratic (Party) Direction

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— Jeremy Chopp (@jeremychopp) March 15, 2018

1. Restore the interest of mostly non-white and/or young voters who were energized by the candidacy of a partly-African-American Gen-X'er

this is a really cool way to refer to obama

i'm younger than Obama and i am no Gen X-er

so basic math is among neb's many failures

well yeah, i mean obama is a late baby boomer but it was "partly-African-American" that i was balking at

and that hyphen after "partly"

Yes, I should have called him a Generation Joneser, with cross-appeal to boomers and X'ers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Barack Obama II is of Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry

We are not often thankful enough of your demographic prowess.

We are not often thankful enough of your demographic prowess.

Barack Obama II

The Wrath of Hope

whole lotta hope

Honestly it's amazing how much this election seems to be revealing respected figures as either frauds or people who have now been driven mad.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive)

i hate to say this but i really think a hell of a lot of people have been driven mad, or at least temporarily deranged, by the past couple years, and the people who were most invested in pre-2016 political norms have gone the most bonkers

this explains a lot about why i feel that bernie-ism is the west's political hope at this point in time

Barack Obama II is of Luo, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh ancestry

― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, March 15, 2018 12:17 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wish u were in front of me so i could slap you in the mouth for each item in this list. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

i faintly remember someone making a argument here a long time ago about how people with german ancestry in the upper midwest US were more likely to vote for obama because of his german roots (or something). realizing now that was probably a gabbnebism

i wish u were in front of me so i could slap you in the mouth for each item in this list. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:31 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Perhaps you should think about the possibility that this says a great deal more about you than it does about me, direct the question at yourself, and concentrate on the subject matter rather than the personality of the poster. Do you in fact have any substantive point to make?

“Obama’s German Ancestry” would have been a good title for one of those past election threads.

xp

no; youre just too much sometimes, my dude

if you want a more substantive thing, Q: why in the two thousand and eighteenth year of our lord do you continue do you put stock into what flavor of european people have in their family tree as if those connections mean anything? i just want to know what studies exist that demonstrate their meaningfulness.

also ps i ilu never change (except in this way)

NB: There is a difference between making your points and communicating your points. If you fail to communicate them because of your "personality" (i.e. how you make your point) then blaming the other party is counter productive, unless you just don't care about communication and are just writing to scratch an itch.

this user was banned for life and has created a new account. not really sure why he's still here tbh

An interesting take I have been seeing on Lamb is that, while he ran as a "moderate," he also ran pro-labor and new deal dem on economic issues, and that's what delivered him the win rather than being "moderate." I take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to this stuff because each side wants to believe their politics are the way to win every single election. But it sounds credible.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/14/labor-delivered-win-democrat-conor-lamb-prevails-district-trump-won-20

this user was banned for life

the mods can figure this out, but we non-mods can only conjecture it. though it seems like a safe bet by now who we're dealing with.

the politics threads have taken on some weird meta aspect. all the politics threads are divided between people trying to perpetuate the dialogue despite the fact that it's been poisoned and people who don't actually have the power to fix anything trying desperately to call attention to the source of the destabilization.

Who is which? And can one oscillate between those two attitudes?

Maybe we should be glad that there's nobody on Team "Everything's Going Swimmingly #MAGA"

if you want a more substantive thing, Q: why in the two thousand and eighteenth year of our lord do you continue do you put stock into what flavor of european people have in their family tree as if those connections mean anything? i just want to know what studies exist that demonstrate their meaningfulness.

― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Thursday, March 15, 2018 8:10 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll probably address this in substance in a more appropriate thread at a later date.

*endless screaming*

KM yes that was gabbo, under the sign of benbbag. the excursus, which also extended to john kasich, was justly clowned at the time.

What did he do to get banned for life? Was it the Obama’s German Ancestry thing?

he was just like he is now

plus there was something about my medical coverage

An interesting take I have been seeing on Lamb is that, while he ran as a "moderate," he also ran pro-labor and new deal dem on economic issues, and that's what delivered him the win rather than being "moderate." I take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to this stuff because each side wants to believe their politics are the way to win every single election. But it sounds credible.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/14/labor-delivered-win-democrat-conor-lamb-prevails-district-trump-won-20

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), 15. marts 2018 21:19 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It doesn't really seem to be supported by the data, because Lamb was elected mostly by the suburbs, the working class areas of the district still went for the Republican. But hey, his pro-labor stance didn't hurt him, so no reason not to go for what's right. The boring thing seems to be, from my spot as a foreign observer, that the right candidate changes from district to district...

what are the odds huh

He went pretty strong for the union vote, and the union guys whom the newspaper and cable channels interviewed believed they were getting a union-leaning congressional candidate. I believe them.

btw karl:

a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

what makes you think that they think he would? what i think they think, and what i think is hard to deny, is that he does not poll as well as either clinton or biden against the other side. obviously that's partly a function of name recognition, but just as obviously it's partly a function of (explicitly "socialist," however democratic) ideology and the fact that he's a brooklyn jew representing one of the (smallest,) most liberal and furthest northern states in america (see also minnesotan norwegian-american Walter Mondale and bronx/queens italian-american Gerry Ferraro, winners of 13 electoral votes, as well as bostonian greek-american michael dukakis, winner of 111 with a texan at his side, neither of whom could call upon a special appeal to the african- or asian-american communities as did far more mainstream illinoisan german/african-american obama, born and raised in the pacific, and neither of whom faced an opponent as abhorrent to the hispanic community as Donald Trump would be but Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio might not). there is some democratic advantage baked into the cake that may mean a win for whomever is the nominee, but as long as victory is subject to doubt, if you care about winning (and the other side's losing), you don't pick the most extreme and relatively unknown outlier in your coalition, you pick a central and well-known/-liked name who will get its diverse membership (a substantial portion of which would not identify with sanders as either individual or ideologue) to the polls and have some marginal appeal to the other side. fairly obvious stuff.

― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Sunday, 13 September 2015 21:29 (two years ago) Permalink

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Did you actually read what I wrote? It was highly relevant that he was from middle-American Illinois and shares the most predominant ethnic heritage in America (if only because we make such fine distinctions as to the British isles, from which Appalachians don't acknowledge they hail). Or did you think it was because he was "black and socialist and Kenyan" that in 2008 he won neighboring Indiana (only because of the third-party candidate, as in NC, but still), came within 2/10 of a percent in neighboring Missouri, and pushed nearly the entire mountain west leftward, losing Montana by less than 1/2 a percent? That would seem to prove my point that a half-African-American has broader appeal than someone from a more minoritarian white-ethnic heritage like mine, with the substantial number of Democrats who would not vote for him because of his race outweighed by the number of additional African-Americans who turned out on his behalf, as they did in a greater percentage than whites in 2012.

― it's not a tuomas (benbbag), Sunday, 13 September 2015 22:16 (two years ago) Permalink

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the biggest question is the german-american vote. now that obama isn't running, where will they turn???

― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 September 2015 22:57 (two years ago) Permalink

gold

I can't read Sanskrit.

That's colonialist.

“The suburbs” is not necessarily a useful category in determining whether or not labor was a key factor in the vote. You need a little more information than that.

ha! if we're going to go down memory lane, this was fun.

yeah, don't forget that America was intensely concerned with to which precise decimal point obama was of german ancestry rather than widely but shallowly registering the fact of those german roots, well-publicized in connection with the massive speech he gave in berlin in the middle of his overseas tour in the summer of '08 as planned by a very smart campaign famous for its "microtargeting" of the electorate and surely aware of the german-american cast of both the contemporary ethnic composition and historical root culture of the middle america from which he sought to identify as hailing.

obama kenyan roots - About 370,000 results
obama irish roots - About 1,540,000 results
obama german roots - About 8,040,000 results

being a smart-ass means never having to the confront the possibility that i might have identified a perhaps-highly salient political/demographic factor that you had never considered, expressive of my deeper understanding of the electorate/country, i guess.

― it's not a tuomas (benbbag)

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Obama "Kenyan roots" 30,800
Obama "German roots" 6850

Hmmmmm

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten)

sorry to dredge up things totally unrelated to anyone who might be posting in this thread, although the condescending tone of the original posts makes me not so sorry

You guys figure out where the German-Americans went yet?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-and-the-white-vote
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/4/1607288/-Did-German-Americans-voting-for-one-of-their-own-help-elect-Trump
http://www.electionanalysis2016.us/us-election-analysis-2016/section-4-diversity-and-division/why-are-the-german-americans-trumps-most-loyal-supporters/

somehow the weirdest thing to me, out of everything, is that you won't just say who you are

by the way, not sure if you read all of that first buzzfeed link you posted, but

https://i.imgur.com/p6ZNQPj.png

The Dailykos article just shows that Trump did well in states that have a high German-American population, many of which lean Republican anyway, without commenting on how well he did with German-Americans specifically, relative to previous candidates. The Buzzfeed article actually says that German-Americans disapproved more strongly of Obama than did other large white American communities, and that people who identify strongly as German-American tend to be more likely to support any Republican, not just Trump.
xp!

The take-away from the Urlaub article also seems to be that the German-American community tends to have conservative leanings generally, not that they identified with Obama and then with Trump because of some kind of ethnic solidarity.

The Buzzfeed article actually says that German-Americans disapproved more strongly of Obama than did other large white American communities

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, March 16, 2018 3:41 AM (fifty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Between September 22 and October 2, 2016, yes.

:-|

best to remove emotions and personal history from the equation and just let hard science settle the score

gabbneb was right
About 6 results (0.32 seconds)

gabbneb was not right
About 19 results (0.52 seconds)