Respect, II.

As soon as it’s time to start contemplating the next election, commentators begin to ask this question, demanding of Democrats that they explain why this time will be different and they’ll be able to win over those white voters. I’m going to argue that Democrats don’t have to win the white working class, so they shouldn’t worry themselves too much about it.
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Those voters were actually working-class white Democrats, in the 2008 primaries. Right away you’re talking about a minority of the white working class. And she did indeed do far better than Barack Obama among them. His race and hers had a whole lot to do with that, and it also may help explain why her ratings among whites without college degrees are worse now than they were in June 2008.
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But is there something Hillary Clinton (or some other Democrat) could do that would cause huge numbers of working-class white voters to vote differently than they had before?

Jobs, jobs, jobs.
Put the American economy first.
Concentrate on the educations of little American girls and boys.
Not just HeadStart and more social programs in the schools, but top-notch year-round educational opportunities for those who show talent, ambition and discipline, those ready to learn and compete globally.

(or... you could just blow off "those whites", and see how the country fares without them, I suppose. Nothing like cerebral contemplation* to move ahead together, eh?)

Whose the Racist, Mr. Waldeman?

The plain truth is that she’s likely to get more of their votes than Barack Obama did just because she’s white (though not so many more that it will make her unbeatable). But there isn’t some magical key to unlocking the votes of that entire demographic category that can be found and deployed.

You likely would not know it if you stumbled across it, Mr. Gruber. Stupidity blinds, and deafens, you know...
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"What Democrats need to do is offer an agenda, particularly on the economy, that appeals to a broad spectrum of Americans. That’s both simple and complicated. But if and when they put that agenda together, lots of white working class voters still won’t respond...

Democrats don’t need them all. What they need is about the same proportion of those votes that they got in the last couple of presidential elections. More would be nice, but the same amount would work fine. Because you may remember who won those elections."

Wall Street?