Looking at the recent Quinnipac poll, I have to again wonder if African-Americans are really a "block." That concept may have no more coherence than Norwegian-Americans forming a block that supports the Norsk-descended Mayor Pete.
Per Qpac poll, 22 percent of African Americans nationally favor Bloomberg, and 19 percent favor Sanders, with Biden holding on to 27 percent. (Warren lags with 8 percent, Buttigieg with merely 4 percent.)
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3655
If you look at numbers, Bloomberg is a bit ahead on numerical lead of Trump, though that's all registered voters, so I don't know how well he does with Likely Voters as a subgroup. But he's certainly showing that there is no "African-American candidate" in the sense that Joe was styling himself.
Also, regarding Bloomy, it's interesting that no one is kvetching about agedness in his direction - which could be partly due to looking a bit younger than his chronological age (58 billion buys a lot of antioxidants and Swiss clinic visits), and partly that he hasn't been long months out pressing the flesh, swallowing corn dogs, and getting haggard at day's end. Or it could be the party is getting acclimated to our new world where people whose age is the statistical lifespan of an American male are no longer a novelty act. (my father lived to Bloomberg's present age, which wasn't too shabby for a guy who lived early years in the Dust Bowl, then breathed printing chemicals for decades, and smoked almost his entire life)
Told you guys months ago Biden was riding high because he was The Wingman, he was Uncle Joe.
After 2016 it was clear the majority of white people in the nation were good with making America white again. Well DAMN!
Uncle Joe was as comfortable and familiar as an old cardigan. Nice to wear once and a while but threadbare so if you wear it everyday it’ll probably come apart. Joe was safe. We know Joe... we like him anyway.
Bernie would rather be right than win.
Pete is an old guy’s idea of a young guy and he can’t deal straight up with the black folks at home.
Amy Klobuchar would be a good President but not at a time when being nice is not an asset. Only reaching across the aisle I want to see is if there’s a cutlass in hand.
In my opinion Warren would be the best candidate especially if she has Bloomberg slamming Trump all day every day. What’s he gonna do, call her Pocahontas?
No one I know in or out of the biz “likes” or “supports” Bloomberg but like Joe, we know him and he ain’t Trump!
I’ll take a benevolent despot over a fascist dictator any day.
PoC and everyone who isn’t a straight white male can feel the menace in the air.
My parents told me of Nazis marching through Lindenhurst, NY when they were teenagers and I’ve now TWICE run across fucking Nazis marching through DC.
Bloomberg can go toe to toe with Trump and the GOP donor base, so fuck yeah! Smack that motherfucker around all day and night!
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