President Obama Says If There Is a Low Turnout For Black Voters "It Will Be An Insult To My Legacy "

[hayesc0]

Jill Stein and Gary Johnson are not viable third party candidates. They can't even qualify for the debates.

By all means, vote for them if you choose as a symbolic gesture but it will ultimately mean nothing.

Yeah but do you know why they cant qualify for the debates do you know who determines who is allowed to participate in the debates lol. Its a board with only republicans and dems you and many like yourself are content with that and not even trying to push for change you are part of the problem imo. Also keep in mind they made the rules mores stringent after Perot got in. Allowing others in the debates are the only way third parties can actually grow but its all good.

 

[hayesc0]

And this is what dudes don't get. Unless a good 30 plus % of the voting population is giving these third parties attention it's a waste. I used to be on the same thought process but I had to wakeup.

No we get it but you have to start somewhere and build. If every year you just go well no one else can win let me settle for one of these wack ass candidates then we will continue to be in the same boat forever. Then people get scared when Hillary basically pulls that well im better then Trump routine which is the only appeal that she has lol.

 

[SirReginald]

I told you the 3rd parties are a threat to her because of the millennials. That's why the DNC are doing these scare tactics.

Clinton Losing Millennial Support Nationally and in Key States


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COMMENTSHillary Clinton has a growing problem with millennial voters and that's a major concern for the Democratic presidential nominee.


Both national polls and surveys in swing states show Clinton has seen a slide with voters younger than 35, particularly when Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are factored in.

A national Quinnipiac poll showed Clinton capturing 31 percent of the vote among voters 18-to-34 years of age and a slim 5-point lead overTrump. In August Clinton had 48 percent of that vote and a 24-point lead over Trump.

A Fox News poll of the national electorate showed Clinton winning 37 percent of the youth vote and leading Donald Trump by 9 points. In August, the poll showed her support at 39 percent and leading Trump by 8 points.

In Ohio, a CBS/YouGov poll showed Clinton doing better with voters under 30, winning 51 percent of them and holding 32-point lead on Trump. But that number was down from August when Clinton won 57 percent of that vote and a held a 38-point lead.

A Detroit Free Press poll in Michigan showed a big dip among voters under 35. In the new poll she has 31 percent of that vote and a 7-point lead over Trump. In August she had 44 percent of that vote and a 24-point lead.

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The lower numbers are a big problem for Clinton because Democrats need a lot of votes from the younger part of the electorate to offset losses they normally get with older voters. Consider 2012 when Millennials gave President Barack Obama his biggest numbers by far. He captured 60 percent of the under-30 vote in the national electorate, compared to just 37 percent that went for GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

Obama did even better with that age group in Michigan and Ohio with 63% of the under-30 vote.

It's an issue Obama himself addressed in his campaign appearance in Philadelphia last Tuesday. In trying to rally the coalition that elected him twice to get enthusiastic about backing Clinton, the president took a moment to address young voters:

"And the young people who are here, who all you've been seeing is just the nonsense that's been on TV, you maybe don't remember all the work that she has had to do and all the things she has had to overcome and all the good that has happened because of her efforts. But you need to remember. ... She's in the arena and you can't leave her in there by herself, you've to get in there with her. You can't stay home because, you know, she's been around for a long time. Well you know what? This is not reality TV. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You don't tweet in your vote."

First Lady Michelle Obama also hit the campaign trail last week, speaking at a rally at George Mason University in Virginia. "Let's be clear, elections are not just about who votes, but who does not vote," she told the students. "And that is especially true for young people, like all of you. In fact, in 2012, voters under the age of 30 provided the margin of victory for Barack in four key battleground states."

So where is Clinton's Millennial vote going? It depends on the poll you examine. Some of it is going to Trump and some to the undecided or "other" categories. But third party candidates seem to be playing an outsized role in 2016.

In the national Fox News and Ohio state polls. Libertarian Gary Johnson has seen small increases among Millennials since August, 2 points and 5 points respectively. In those polls Johnson sits at about 17 percent of the vote.

In the national Quinnipiac and Michigan state polls, the Johnson gains among young voters are much more substantial, 13 points and 14 points respectively. He's now garnering about a quarter of the vote in those polls.

In a close election those could be big numbers and they say a lot about the 2016 campaign. In a year full of strange wrinkles in the campaign, Mr. Johnson is not new. He ran in 2012 as well, as did Green Party candidate Jill Stein, but with very small impacts.

In 2012 the Johnson and Stein together garnered about 1.5 percent of the vote. Even among voters under the age of 30 they didn't rack up big numbers. Exit polls show that Mr. Obama and Republican Mitt Romney together captured 97 percent of the 29-and-younger vote. That means Johnson, Stein and all other votes were a mere 3 percent of the younger voter tally.

But as the poll numbers above show, 2016 may be shaping up to be very different.

The question behind Clinton's millennial dip is whether it represents a moment in time or a new norm. If the presidential race stays close, will younger voters decide to vote for one of the two major party candidates, go with a third-party option or stay home?

On that point, some of the key locales to watch in the coming months are communities with large pockets of Millennial voters, the nation's college counties. Think of Dane County, Wisconsin, and Washtenaw County Michigan, the homes of the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan respectively.

It's fall, classes are back in session and the poll numbers suggest Clinton and other campaign surrogates may be logging some campus time in the coming weeks.

Clinton's losing millennial support nationally and in key states

 

[Paradise50]

Obama can suck my dikk. fukking Kenyan c00n insulted me with that god damn comment. Specific shyt for mexicans, gays, and jews ...and this nikka got the nerve to shame black folks to vote for Clinton!?


nah fukk you, you son of a bytch.


didn't forget the WH intern asking you about your legacy to black folks and you deflecting and saying the question is better for Michelle

you don't identify with AA, motherfukker.

 

[marcuz]

@ThreeLetterAgency, call up. 818...

 

[SirReginald]

Voting HRC is a way to knock off a WS named trump.

And how do u suppose we do that. Sadly, he did make it this far, so now we gotta stop him from getting into the end zone

You acting like Hillary isn't a White Supremacist. She's just subtle with it like Lyndon Baines Johnson was. Behind closed doors she used the word "******" "kike" and etc. It's in a book wrote by an author who was close to the Clinton's. BOTH are WS and the 1% class.

 

[Paradise50]

crazy thing is I was at Jessie Jackson back then but in retrospect the nikka wasn't lying at all

 

[SirReginald]

Yeah but do you know why they cant qualify for the debates do you know who determines who is allowed to participate in the debates lol. Its a board with only republicans and dems you and many like yourself are content with that and not even trying to push for change you are part of the problem imo. Also keep in mind they made the rules mores stringent after Perot got in. Allowing others in the debates are the only way third parties can actually grow but its all good.

EXACTLY the CPD needs their non partisan tax exempt status taken away. Plus, we need to boycott Budweiser AKA the major sponsor for the debates.

 

[BrehWyatt]

Perhaps he'd just like to think that he was legitimately seen as the best candidate for the job and he hopes that the reason why black people voted with the numbers they did wasn't solely because there was a black candidate on the ballot. We all know the truth though. We all know people are are kin to people who chose him because of that.

But from what I gathered from the article, it seems as if the point he was driving home was to keep voting IN GENERAL, regardless of whether or not he is on the ballot. But the fact that this here thread has become what it has ... well ... we as a country deserve whatever candidate we get. Both of them are trash really, but there's no way I could justify voting for Trump.

 

[Blackgate]

nah buddy..you shouldve been trying to rally black people to get them something they wanted...black people should co-operate to get things they want and need...obama using his influence with black people to get hilary clinton elected is disgusting...he didnt even try to use his influence with white people to get anything for black people(like reparations)...he said it was his job to help everybody...it aint black folks job to help everybody and we damn sure shouldnt be made to feel obligated to put the clintons back in the white house...

 

[BiggWebb79]

 

[The American]

Complain about presidential choices, yet do nothing to make your state secede, brehs.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Obama can't fukking win

What the fukk do ya'll want from this dude?

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

fukk that nikka

Came here to post this

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I didn't have a problem until he said "it will be an insult to my legacy", this nikka really didn't do shyt for us directly

We're supposed to be satisfied with 20 cents while white people ain't taking any less than a dollar?

Name a policy that was pushed for. That was exclusively for black americans, that didn't also benefit others.