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Cornell Belcher on the new swing voter

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Cornell Belcher talks about who the new swing voter is and what the Democratic Party needs to do to win them over.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-Pup.

0:07.0

Democrats are falling all over themselves trying to figure out how to win back white working class

0:15.2

voters.

0:16.2

The pollster says not so fast.

0:18.8

We spend a lot of time talking about blue-collar white voters in Reagan Democrats.

0:23.7

Reagan Democrats are dead, right?

0:26.1

After conducting two focus groups, one in Fort Lauderdale, the other in Milwaukee,

0:30.6

you'll never guess who the Democratic pollster says is the new swing voter.

0:35.0

And you can find out right now.

0:37.0

Cornell Belcher, thank you very much for being on the podcast.

0:42.0

My pleasure.

0:43.0

Okay, there's so much to talk about you were a pollster on both of President Obama's

0:48.0

presidential campaigns, you're the author of the book, a black man in the White House.

0:51.0

And don't forget Howard Dean.

0:52.0

Oh, right, I was Dean's pollster. of the book a black man in the white house. And don't forget Howard Dean.

0:53.0

Oh, right.

0:54.0

I was Dean's Poster.

0:55.0

Architect 50 State Strategy built on our research.

0:58.0

I get a lot of sort of kudos for the Obama work,

1:01.0

but we did a lot of great stuff under Dean by the way which I think

1:05.3

some of the party should look back on now some of the stuff that we did then when

1:10.0

Karl Rove was talking about a permanent Republican majority in 2006 came along.

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