Barbara Clark is a great example of a voter, whether black, white, Latin or from another ethnic group that opposes stereotypes. This rebellion often leads to voters, such as her overlooked as people who could change not only presidential elections, but also the majority in the Senate.
Clark is a black woman who was a registered democrat through almost all her adult life and voted twice for former President Barack Obama.
“Dear, I not only voted for him,” she said. “I was the organizer of the Barack Obama community for Acorn.”
The acronym means the Association of Social Organizations in the field of NOW reform, the leftist organization of registration registration 501 (C) (4), which closed its doors in 2010.
67 -year -old Clark admitted that she did not know politics so well before committing to Obama.
“I knew you voted. But really, studying and doing all this, I didn’t know. I just took the shale card and voted to the democrat, “she said.
However, she inspired Obama’s candidacy, accelerated the game and got involved. However, Clark said that when he was elected and the rulers, she wondered why he did not see improvements in his community and life in the way he promised.
“After we got Obama for the first time and nothing happened, nothing changed, I said what was happening? And the local democrats told me: “They won’t let him,” explained Clark.
“My answer to them was that I said, well, he had to accelerate and say, I am the president. But nothing has changed in our community, “she added.
Clark said that she was growing up in a completely black district with families, such as her, who made me perform her duties before she was allowed to play in the summer. After releasing: “You went to the park and swam,” she said. “You played with your neighbors. You can play all day outside. We grew up, the pool was on the other side of the street. “
“And people looked after us,” she said about her childhood, which she said, was idyllic. “They are like, you go home. It’s time to go home. Because the park did not close until 9 and we played in Softball. We are happy. Every day we had things to do. And there were no computers and telephone, iPhones and all this. And we had fun. “
However, Clark’s political worldview changed after the disappointment of Obama and after sobriety.
“For most of my adult life I have been on drugs for 23 years. So I didn’t pay attention. I saw democrats appearing. I really didn’t pay attention to (in fact) that they only came for elections. But when I became sober, my head was clear, “she said.
Clark said that she soon realized the promises of better schools, jobs and the great economy, they proved to be unsuccessful.
“It remained the same,” she said. “It always remained the same.”
When I first interviewed Clark, she said that she did not volunteer to Hillary Clinton, but she still voted for her in 2016, when she recently voted for a democrat. Until 2018, Clark began to engage in the Republican Party, and in 2020 she worked for the external group to get the then President Donald Trump in her hometown of Ohio.
Clark no longer works for Trump, but “Miss Barbara” because she is tenderly known at Columbus in Ohio, spends days talking to other black neighbors about why she thinks he is a better choice for their lives.
“See our community, what we are worried about if we can buy a loaf of bread and gasoline to get to work,” she said about economic despair, which still harms working families. “And I mean that gas was so high. And you just couldn’t do it. And in the last four years I have thought about my God. You go to a store with a hundred dollars, and you go out with literally one bag, maybe one and a half bag. “
Democrats saw the migration of southern whites to GOP for 50 years after World War II. Will 2024 be the beginning of the next massive change? Several polls indicate that Trump is doing surprisingly well among the Black and Latin voters.
David Myhal, a consultant from Ohio GOP, looked at the numbers and explained: “The democratic party depends on his voters to disregard the results and politics and only vote identity. I believe that voters are smarter; I think they are beginning to realize that Democrats think they are so stupid. “
GOP was called the party of affluent white people and democrats as a part of diversity. At the first point, some do not agree on the facts.
“Most of the really rich people are democrats, unless they are influenced by strong faith on them,” said Myhal.
When you follow political giving in the Trump era, you will find it for the truth. Managers and lawyers were very generous fundraisers for Clinton, President Joe Biden, and now vice president of Kamali Harris.
The up-to-date denominator may be on the horizon, which replaces the identity policy: economics and common sense in the central western part.
“Farmers, evangelicals, Latinos and Black can agree to one thing: a cow is a girl, a bull is a boy and I do not want a politician to decide if I can drink their milk or eat a hamburger, and I can better afford to make a choice,” said Myhal.
Clark said she was terrified when Obama admonished black men and called them “brothers” for not approaching Harris. She was equally terrified when Harris published a list of a laundry of promises called “Opporturnity Program for Black Men”, which she wanted to employ to guarantee the vote of a black man. The program included a million fully forgiving loans of up to USD 20,000 for owners of black companies to set up companies, a national initiative to focus on different health results of black men, legalization of recreational marijuana and creating opportunities for black entrepreneurs in this developing industry.
“Don’t tell me, don’t tell me. She will give us some drugs. Because that’s what black people want, “Clark said sarcastically.
“You see it just there. If this did not wake up the black ones, let me hit them to wake them up. Because we were so conditioned (vote) a democrat no matter what because they give us things, “she said.
Professor of the Stanów University of Youngstown Paul Sracic explained that we can see more and more signs indicating that the country is under consideration.
“What we saw in 2016 can be looked at what the political scientist Vo Key called” critical choices “, just like in 1928, when Catholics joined what became the coalition of New Deal,” he said.
Pogades are often powered by candidates. In 1928, the Democrats appointed a Catholic Al Smith to lead their ticket, but Catholics have already moved to the Democratic Party.
It was the same with Trump and voters from the working class in 2016, said Sracic.
“These voters have already moved to the Republican Party. It is really interesting whether the movement is continued after Trump and whether we can stop assuming that all this Republican support of the working class is limited to white voters, “he explained.
If this happens, it may look more like an adaptation that took place in 1896, when the Republicans managed to attract voters from various social classes to become the dominant party in the next century.
For now, Clark spends time talking to people in the districts of the city of Columbus, especially where people love to gather to chew fat and talk to her about how critical their voice is.
“I make it a hairdresser. And oh, conversations. When I supported Trump for the first time, they told me, oh Barbara, what’s wrong with you? And, girl, some people stopped talking to me, “she said laughing.
“But now I was amazed. It was on Monday that I went to the hairdresser and they talked. And oh my God, hairdressers really supported Trump. I was like my God. I almost cried because they woke up. “
