Glass Houses

OK, I'll criticise both sides. I think it's a good chance to show courage, and that's what this job is about. Candidates wbo beard the lion like that DO tend to come out ahead from impressing people who otherwise wouln't've paid attention. Certainly, if I were in any shoes other than Hillary's I WOULD, to get some momentum going.

I think the GOP is losing more than the Dems, though. The Latinos were an important part of the last (R) win, and I seem to remember the win was pretty darned close, and now it'll take extra work to get more than a handful of votes atall, despite Latino cultural conservatism. By contrast, Clinton got his win without performing on Fox. And, like Clinton, Hillary will play well outside the blue states already because she is who she is, if she runs a similarly smart campaign.

Bwahaha!

The odd assumption is that racism is a one-way street. Blacks are consistently the most reliable group in terms of % voting for Democrats. If any group is loyal to a party on the basis of race, that's the direction it's going. The politics of race are concentrated on the left, so that the arrows come form that side is not a surprise. Conservatives are, to a greater degree, a party of values (not just moral values, but a party that sets its framework around principles rather than a patchwork of special interest groups). This may explain why a majority of Asian-Americans vote for Republicans in spite of the racism allegedly concentrated in that party. Or are Asians being racist in their vote while blacks are not? Are the unions (not exactly a conservative group) trying to block immigration because they're racist or, because, as they consistently state, they're economic protectionists? They don't care what race the immigrants are, they want limits. This is the same logic (lack thereof) underlying the GOP base.