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"You Get The Politicians You Deserve."
- Ex-President Barak Obama, May 2017
Ok, so Obama wasn't talking to ALL Americans. He wasn't even talking about Republicans / Conservatives. And no he wasn't talking to / about ALL Democrats. He was talking to / about the Democrats who refused to go out and vote and to the Democrats that voted FOR TRUMP. 'For not turning out to vote and for voting for Trump, YOU Democrats are now getting what you deserve', is in essence what Obama was saying.
Obama: You get the politicians you deserve - Hot Air
"We deserved eight years of him and then four of Trump? Good lord. This may be the single most cutting thing he’s ever said about Americans. Well, second-most.
Buried in the subtext of his remark is his theory of the election: Democrats didn’t turn out in the numbers they should have (“if you don’t vote and you don’t participate and you don’t pay attention…”), ergo they’re being punished with a Trump presidency. There’s a grain of truth in that but it misses the big picture. It’s true that turnout among some core Democratic groups, most notably black voters, was down from the Obama era, but it wasn’t missing Democrats that ultimately swung the election. It was the Obama voters who did turn out — and voted for Trump."
Those Obama-Trump voters, in fact, effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group’s analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton’s failure to reach Obama’s vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters…
“This idea that Democrats can somehow ignore this constituency and just turn out more of our voters, the math doesn’t work,” Canter said. “We have to do both.”
Another way to take Barry's comment is that we did not 'deserve' Hillary Clinton as President, thank goodness. ;p
- Ex-President Barak Obama, May 2017
Ok, so Obama wasn't talking to ALL Americans. He wasn't even talking about Republicans / Conservatives. And no he wasn't talking to / about ALL Democrats. He was talking to / about the Democrats who refused to go out and vote and to the Democrats that voted FOR TRUMP. 'For not turning out to vote and for voting for Trump, YOU Democrats are now getting what you deserve', is in essence what Obama was saying.
Obama: You get the politicians you deserve - Hot Air
"We deserved eight years of him and then four of Trump? Good lord. This may be the single most cutting thing he’s ever said about Americans. Well, second-most.
Buried in the subtext of his remark is his theory of the election: Democrats didn’t turn out in the numbers they should have (“if you don’t vote and you don’t participate and you don’t pay attention…”), ergo they’re being punished with a Trump presidency. There’s a grain of truth in that but it misses the big picture. It’s true that turnout among some core Democratic groups, most notably black voters, was down from the Obama era, but it wasn’t missing Democrats that ultimately swung the election. It was the Obama voters who did turn out — and voted for Trump."
Those Obama-Trump voters, in fact, effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group’s analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton’s failure to reach Obama’s vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters…
“This idea that Democrats can somehow ignore this constituency and just turn out more of our voters, the math doesn’t work,” Canter said. “We have to do both.”
Another way to take Barry's comment is that we did not 'deserve' Hillary Clinton as President, thank goodness. ;p
