FW: The Democratic Party Establishment Would Rather Lose the Election than Have Sanders as its Presidential Candidate
Scott Shuster
Subject: The Democratic Party Establishment Would Rather Lose the Election than Have Sanders as its Presidential Candidate
Democratic turnout at primaries is down, and fewer voter registration drives could be to blame
BY Shaun King
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Friday, February 26, 2016, 7:12 PM
Something is unraveling right now in the Democratic Party. Come November, it could cost them the White House.
For decades, the "Get Out the Vote" campaigns and voter registration drives have been driven by liberals. The logic is this: the bulk of unregistered voters in the United States have Democratic leanings. The more people who are registered and the more people who vote increases the likelihood that Democratic candidates will win.
College campuses and youth events are gold mines for unregistered voters. In previous presidential elections, you couldn't step foot on a college campus or go to a concert in the country without being hounded to register.
But it doesn’t seem to be a priority this year, and I can’t help but to think that party leaders don’t mind.
Hillary Clinton is clearly the establishment candidate for the Democratic Party. Not one U.S. Senator has endorsed Bernie Sanders. Only two other congresspeople have endorsed Bernie — the rest have all broken for Hillary. Almost all of the mayors and state senators from the Democratic party have also endorsed Hillary Clinton.
As much as establishment politicians have broken for Hillary, young people under the age of 35 have broken for Bernie Sanders. Without fail, in each primary so far, in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, young people under the age of 35 have voted for Bernie by a margin of 85% to 15%. It's not even close.
Consequently, party leaders (again, that's code for Hillary supporters) have seemingly hosted fewer voter registration drives. Doing so, would, in essence, be drives for Bernie Sanders. In some cases, party leaders are just skipping them altogether in many states and at college campuses.
When the Democratic Party loses interest in voter registration and voter empowerment, it is truly blurring the lines between what makes it fundamentally different than the Republican Party.
Speaking on this subject, immigration advocate Alida Garcia said, "I can't wait until the summer when Democrats realize they haven't registered any voters this cycle. Turnout is down, folks. This ain't a political revolution; it’s fighting over the same piece of pie."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been sounding this alarm for months now.
In all four states where Republicans have voted, they have broken the all-time records for voter turnout for each and every state. On the flip side, turnout for Democrats is down 28% in Iowa, 13% in New Hampshire, and an astounding 33% in Nevada.
Political commentator Roland Martin chimed in on how much lower Democratic voter turnout has been:
"They (the Democratic Party) should be driving hard for registration, registration, registration. I don’t understand why they’re not spending a massive amount of money in Texas to register those 2.1 million eligible unregistered Hispanics. We have nearly 1 million folks in Georgia alone who are unregistered African-American and Latino. That’s where they should be because it’s going to be a turnout game for them in Ohio — Florida."
But here's the thing: Hillary must know that low voter turnout actually favors her campaign to get the nomination. She and the political machine are not going to invest the time or money to beat the drums for voter registration because they know full well those are primarily votes she won't receive.
While Bernie Sanders is officially running as a Democrat, he is truly doing so in name only. He has none of the well-tuned party mechanisms in place that could register millions of new voters and doesn't have any of the local politicians who would typically get behind such a thing on his side. They are all stumping for Hillary.
It all feels mighty conservative to me. In Florida, a staggering 23.3% of black Americans are fully banned from voting because of prior felonies. Since Florida effectively has a lifetime ban on felon voting rights — and rarely grants exceptions — we have something that deeply resembles Jim Crow in that state.
Because the state has a Republican governor, though, he is not all incentivized to restore those voting rights to black felons because it could very well cost him and future conservative candidates their position in the government. Some 500,000 free black men in Florida are banned from voting. Conservative Gov. Rick Scott won his last election by fewer than 65,000 votes. Al Gore "lost" Florida by 537 votes.
So, as it seems like conservative lawmakers are playing politics with the constitutional rights of their citizens, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic party aren't far behind as they suddenly seem to lose interest in voter registration in the name of winning elections.
It's ugly, but this is game of American politics.
stacie chaiken
Roberta Morris
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