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Always good to remember the type of people who actually decide elections;
Amid the chaos of last night’s Iowa caucuses, someone captured video of a homophobic Pete Buttigieg supporter who had no idea that her candidate was gay.
“Are you saying he has a same-sex partner?” she asked. “Yes, yes he does,” the poll worker responded.
“Are you kidding?!” the caucus-goer said. “Yes, he’s married to him, yes,” the poll worker replied.
“Well,” the homophobe said, “then I don’t want anybody like that in the White House. So can I have my [ballot] back?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTQlwARreXc&feature=emb_logo
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That caucus worker was a
That caucus worker was a mother fucking saint.
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Amusing as this might be,
Housewives from the upper midwest aren't the demographic opposed to gay marriage that Pete has to be worried about.
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Watch out for jewishphobes
Watch out for jewishphobes too.
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Just out of curiosity who are
Just out of curiosity who are the homophobes that Pete should be worried about?
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People wonder why Buttigieg has such little support among African Americans...it's not his record as Mayor of South Bend.
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https://apple.news/Aj4uflp0lS
https://apple.news/Aj4uflp0lS_utTJb68Q54Gw
people coming out and VOTEing decide
not "swing voters"
Interesting analysis
people vote against the party they don't like
not for the candidate they like
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I don't think Ice Cube likes
I don't think Ice Cube likes being labeled 'homophobic'.
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https://www.brookings.edu
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/02/06/the-2020-presidenti...
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<<To be clear, Trump is not the only 2020 presidential candidate attempting to use symbolism to win over Black voters. One day before this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg unveiled his Greenwood Initiative—a plan to uplift the economic prospects of Black Americans—at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla., home to a successful business strip in the early 20th century known as Black Wall Street. On June 1, 1921, white mobs burned and pillaged Black Wall Street’s banks, businesses, and homes in one of the most dramatic and violent strippings of Black lives and property in America. An uncounted number of people were killed, thousands arrested and detained, and an immeasurable amount of wealth was stolen.
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