[Premium Post] I think he is homosexual, but regardless of whether he is or not, what are people's thoughts as to whether a homosexual nominee could win?
I'd like to think so but I'm finding it harder and harder to relate to Small Town, USA the older I get
The desperation on the left is just way too comical. You can not fool the American people anymore, after 8 years of the community organizer, do you think we are stupid enough to elect another charlatan? Lol
The problem with rust belt cannot be solved by the democrats or the republicans, that is the problem, just watch Trump try to bring back good paying jobs to the rust belt, lol.
He was my choice for Hillary's vice president, and while I don't know if he would have energized the Bernie supporters, he may have swung the African-American vote. In what will likely be a long list of mistakes, miscalculations and hubris, assuming she had the AA vote - with her husband's policies hanging over her - was a giant, election-costing mistake for Clinton. Booker might have gotten them on board. I always wondered what the Clinton campaign found in his past that disqualified him - or were they *that* convinced Virginia was critical to their path? I know taking Senate seats is a risk - but I was shocked/pissed she passed on Booker. He's certainly an early 2020 "one to watch."
I've always had some respect for the guy - Very willing to listen and go the extra mile; at least he was when he was mayor. I haven't heard much about him since those days.
I was surprised to learn that Hillary Clinton didn't even bother to visit Wisconsin at all after she secured the nomination. It's things like that (affording to the hubris you mentioned among her and most Democrats and pundits) that led to the election going against her. All of the racism and xenophobia and homophobia and misogyny will have to be reckoned with, no doubt...but we've been dealing with that as a nation, to varying degrees and turns, for a while now. Not that those things aren't important...but they gave someone like Donald Trump adequate cover for his campaign. Our "PC" culture has, by and large, fostered environments for both liberals and conservatives that have essentially boiled down to people hearing what they want to hear, instead of listening to what the other person or group is saying. I don't know a lot about Corey Booker myself, but many of the reviews I've gathered are more-or-less mixed. Like most Democrats, he's going to have an opportunity now to reestablish a working-class support base. I don't know if simply going for certain aesthetics is going to work as well as you might suggest. Capitalist society and all that...all the money is green. Some of the social ills are corollaries to that deficit, of course...but there has been, in my opinion, enough social progress in the last 50 years to try to focus more on the similarities between being poor and black and poor and white than on anything else.
Saturday Night Live had a really incisive sketch several weeks ago in which a poor white person appeared on Black Jeopardy, and the AAs were surprised by how much their anger and frustrations aligned. Poor does not know color; and while I think the Democrats are the only party even remotely concerned with the poor, they have to stop grouping and prioritizing poor people by race and find solutions to what are difficult equations - like what can replace the manufacturing jobs that are not - no matter how often Trumps screams about it - coming back to this country (as just one example). My great fear is that the answer is infrastructure, which Obama has been pushing for years and Trump may end up riding that wave and getting credit for it.
