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Originally Posted by Adder
Not sure that any of that had anything to do with appealing to latino voters, though. Gets framed that why by Washington types.
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Apart from business news, national media is not interested in covering policy disputes as policy disputes, so they get covered as if they were entirely political. Hence the assumption that Democratic policies should be understood as efforts to win votes. The political journalists see issues in that light, and can only portray them in that light.
That article, in particular, makes a bunch of good points but also oversimplifies. Black voters are an absolutely core part of the Democratic coalition, and they often feels taken for granted by the party. I wasn't a fan of Biden's commitment re the Supreme Court appointment, but I don't think it was an effort to win over black voters on the margins -- it was aimed at the black voters who were already solidly in the camp.
