If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.
I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.
We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.
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