But the event was significant because of what it represented: A white, unabashedly left-wing candidate holding an event on an issue of particular importance to black women; pointing the finger at institutional racism, rather than class divisions; and showing her willingness to listen to black women. The theme of the event was ‘listening to black women,’ and I think she gets that. “The theme of the event was ‘listening to black women,’ and I think she gets that,” Green said. “These polls talk to very few black voters,” said Nixon campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt. “They tend to make up just 20 percent of a sample of 500 voters — so the margin of error within that even smaller sample of black voters is huge.

Source: Huffington Post September 11, 2018 03:45 UTC