I'm glad Hillary has come out and said what most Black people knew all along.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
This statement pretty much sums of Hillary's campaign strategy for the past few months. Hillary knows that her strength lied in the "working class white vote" after Super Tuesday. This is why she has been in the race even though it was mathematically impossible to win the Democratic nomination. There is no "pattern." It was a campaign strategy. Instead of actually trying to court the Black vote in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, the Clintons instead pandered to the White vote (and their fears) overwhelmingly, by playing up her "folksy roots" and her "non-elite status." Bill Clinton all but ignored urban areas in his trips through North Carolina, and a majority Hillary's votes in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania came from overwhelmingly rural Republican districts.
No one can deny that her strategy worked. But again, why would Blacks vote for a politician who clearly does not consider you important enough to campaign to?
Is there anything wrong with pandering to these votes? Not really. The Clintons are politicians and all politicos do what they have to do to get elected. However, the whining about how Black people are only voting for Obama because he's Black is unjustified and should be rendered moot.
Hillary could have well been the nominee right now if she ran a campaign that reflected all voters, like Obama has from day one, instead of pandering to one segment of the population. In fact, most Black voters were in Clinton's corner at the beginning of the primary season. Hillary's actions, in addition to her race baiting tactics, sum up the many reasons why Black people went 9 to 1 for Obama in the last two contests. Hillary ignored us, plain and simple. Her campaign made the assumption early on that Back people would not vote for her, plan and simple. And we all know what happens when we ass-u-me...