The “Rising American Electorate”, the battleground groups for the future of American politics, insure a bright future for the Democratic Party, especially due to the Republican Party’s refusal to come to grips with these significant groups, who are being ignored, mistreated, insulted, and vilified by suicidal Republicans of the far Right!
Unmarried women, people of color, and young voters are clearly moving toward the Democratic Party, as the party to protect civil rights, to protect a woman’s right to choose on her reproductive life, and dealing with the reality of high economic stress among the young, and the need to create jobs, build infrastructure, and promote education, as the way to create a bright American future for the younger generation of the future.
There are more than ten million unmarried women; 6.5 million African Americans; 3.8 million Latinos; and 10 million young voters, and they all made a difference in the victory of Barack Obama in 2012. As long as a substantial number of these groups turn out in the midterm elections, the danger to the Democrats on a potential loss of the Senate can be averted.
Barack Obama is making his pitch to these groups, and they need to see that a Republican takeover of the Senate would undermine their futures. The “pocketbook” futures of these groups demand that they not be allowed to overlook the importance of voting in the midterm elections. If they do, they are only hurting themselves, as well as the party that is standing up for them.
A couple of news items I saw this morning:
New scientific study says we are now an oligarchy:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/87719/scientific-study-shows-just-how-far-america-is-from-a-democracy
Bloomberg is challenging the NRA on gun safety:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/us/bloomberg-plans-a-50-million-challenge-to-the-nra.html?hp&_r=3
Someone in Ukraine is ordering Jews to register.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/who-behind-letters-ordering-jews-east-ukraine-register-n83926
Yes, Southern Liberal, and there must be immediate action by Russia and outside forces to prevent a pogrom or “ethnic cleansing.” The world cannot sit by and watch without action!
I wonder if all this division we’re having in this country could lead to yet another Civil War.
Rustbelt Democrat, I am very concerned about the future, with these right wing militia groups that are anarchistic; plus the oligarchy which controls so much of the money; and the racial and ethnic divisions that exist as the country become multi racial, and less white by the year!