https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/democrats-should-be-worried-about-latino-vote/604882/

«the organizers I spoke with said they fear that the candidates are struggling to understand a key fact about Latinos in America: They are a tremendously diverse group ideologically and culturally. And that diversity means there’s an opening for Republican overtures.

“Latino conservatives in Florida and in Texas, by the way, are amenable to the Republican message and are willing to forgive Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Latino rhetoric to a certain extent,” said Garcia, the League of United Latin American Citizens leader. “That’s a small minority. But, you know, the difference between 20 and 30 percent could mean the difference of winning Texas or Florida or losing them.”

In other words: Republicans don’t need to win all, or even a majority of, the Latino votes to win in competitive states. Trump seems on track to capture 25 to 30 percent of Latino voters in 2020, a steady showing from his 29 percent support in 2016 and the roughly 32 percent of Latinos who voted for Republicans in 2018.»

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article240387671.html

«According to the judges’ ruling, a top Republican lawmaker said public assistance IDs shouldn’t be allowed because the federal government makes the rules for those IDs, so their reliability couldn’t be guaranteed by state officials. However, the legislature did vote to allow military IDs, which are also federal IDs.

“The failure to include public-assistance IDs was motivated in part by the fact that these types of IDs were disproportionately possessed by African American voters,” the judges concluded.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-abortion-doctor-and-his-accuser/605578/

😦

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/latino-support-trump-problem-democrats/606613/

This is the second article like this I’ve seen recently.

https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2020/02/twitter-is-bad-for-the-news/605782/

«the distorted, often ill-prepared arguments and political firestorms are generally not helpful or informative for the rest of us. If Twitter is ruinous for the Left, then chances are it’s functionally ruinous FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY.»

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/whats-behind-warrens-weak-start/

Thanks, @perrybaconjr. If you were normal media, I’d excoriate you for this “maybe/maybe not” ending, but I’ll cut you some slack since you’re 538. I’m hoping for the former (wide appeal).

Also, ftr, I like the “weak start” headline. Much better than something more negative. It IS only a start.

«But this nomination race is incredibly unsettled, and at some point, having wide appeal might come in handy.

Or not.»

https://twitter.com/kmg_kristen/status/1227938026397061122?s=20

It’s started. #NC4Warren

Kristen Gardner (@kmg_kristen) Tweeted:
#NCforWarren first line for early voting! Time to get Liz Warren elected! https://t.co/RuN6TJqhhy

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1227594895747141632.html

Pure. Genius. Especially the part about red-pilling us all.

Get it before it disappears.

https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-hampshire-plus-beefsteak-bernie-bros.html

Yikes.

«The elections that brought Hitler to power offer us a profound warning from the past. The left-most German party was the KDP; we may consider those voters the Bernie Bros of their time and place. They concentrated not on defeating Hitler but on weakening the center.

Believe it or not, the prospect of a Hitler victory appealed to many within the KDP. They said: “After Hitler, our turn.” It didn’t occur to those naive ninnies that Hitler would smash any mechanism that might give them a turn.

Once Hitler consolidated power, a surprising number of KDP rank-and-filers decided to join the Nazi party. They were derisively labeled “Beefsteak Nazis” — brown on the outside, red on the inside. Before not too many years had passed, the browning had gone all the way to the marrow.

I wonder how many Bernie Bros have the potential to turn into Beefsteak Nazis? Quite a few, I’d reckon. Consider the example of H.A. Goodman.»

Who?

This guy: https://thedailybanter.com/2018/04/23/ha-goodman-now-supports-trump/ (Maybe he’s an outlier, maybe… not so much of an outlier?)