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Entering the presidential race in November is too late without question. Focusing on a state that is later in the primary while ignoring the earlier ones is exactly what Giuliani did in the 2008 GOP primary and he ended up being irrelevant before that state came up (Florida was where he focused on).

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While I do blame politicians I blame the media first and foremost. Look at the landscape of the media, the press and see how many reporters and media personnel are PoC. This fixation for the last 3 years of trump voters is nauseating.  I don't recall in Obama's LANDSLIDE over McCain anyone spending 3 years over Obama voters or the coalition.

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Speaking of media not spending time reporting on certain issues, imo it's downright odd that there are all these forums that are not being reported about in the news.  I had no idea Democracy Now had hosted a town hall. If it weren't for this exchange between Amy Goodman and Elizabeth Warren, I might have never known.

FWIW, I do think that the question is a valid one because we know that for some candidates, New Hampshire and Iowa have been made out to be "make or break", while another candidate is skipping both altogether.

Warren's reaction to the question, though, was not very good.

 

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It's because Obama winning was seen as an anomaly, a correction that had to be fixed. That's one of the reasons Romney got such push from the press in 2012 and why so many were shaken that it was never very close. Trump winning took the country back to what the media expected. They just feel ashamed because he isn't respectable, handsome, or able to fill their daddy issues the way Romney or McCain could.

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Yesss!  Finally!! Goodbye.

 

 

I do think some campaigns are paying attention to certain pockets but I don't believe that much of the media is.  Very few media outlets talked about the South Asian community's voting habits in Virginia.  Traditionally, much of the focus tends to be on East Asian communities but not so much South East Asian (Hmong, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese Americans) and rarely South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi Americans).

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