DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Minority Voters Vital in 2012

The head of the Democrat National Committee said Wednesday that the support of the party faithful was critical to the party’s success in the 2012 elections and to the reelection of President Barack Obama.

“What I have been trying to impress upon our base voters in the African Americans, the Jewish community and our Hispanic friends and among our Progressive friends is that 2008 was historic; 2012 is personal,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. “I am in this because I’m not going back to the days where the policy was exclusively focused on what benefits the wealthiest and most fortunate Americans.”

Wasserman Schultz gave her comments in a meeting with African American reporters and bloggers. During the hour-long chat, Wasserman Schultz shared the party’s plan to invigorate the base of Democratic voters. Black Americans vote Democratic 90 percent of the time — they make up a substantial part of the Democratic Party.

The meeting was part of an effort to communicate with the party’s base and with those who provide news and commentary to black voters.

Wasserman Schultz stressed that the 2012 election is important for middle class Americans. “I’m thrilled there’s a president in the office who will stand up for the middle class,” she said, “and that someone is thinking about the future of our kids, to improve public education and to change the graduation rates in America and to make sure when it comes to No Child Left Behind, leaving children twisting in the wind and focusing on the results of one exam, which we know is not the single measure of a child’s ability.”

Reporters pressed the Democratic National Committee chairwoman on a perceived lapse in clear messaging to the party’s constituency and pointed out setbacks such as the Republican victory earlier this month in New York’s heavily Democratic Ninth Congressional District, the seat given up by Anthony Weiner.

Wasserman acknowledged there have been challenges but said going forward the Democratic National Committee was working to be more clear and direct about President Obama’s accomplishments and why Democrats should continue to have the president’s back.

“Have we been clear messengers before? No. But the first step in any 12-step program is acknowledging there’s a problem and then you move on to the other 11 steps,” she said. “And that’s what we’re doing. But hopefully you’ll start to see things are turning around. People want us to be more clear and more direct and they want us to stand up.”

Wasserman Schultz said that despite all the criticism, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress were making inroads and strides through compromise.

“If we continue to insist on things being 100 percent our way, then we are being just like them,” Wasserman added, referring to the Republican Party. “My way or the highway politics is not good for America. It just doesn’t cut it.”

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4. Wayne Bennett says:

   2:13am September 26, 2011 at 2:13 am

   Not only does she make little sense, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz has to be one of the ugliest people I have ever seen.

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6. Jimmy L. Shirley Jr. says:

   2:43pm October 6, 2011 at 2:43 pm

   Wasserman-Schultz is messed up. She is a Jew. Can we say Bernie Madoff? Steven Speilberg? Max Factor? David Geffen? Alan Greenspan? Leona Helmsley? Henry Kravis? Ron Perlman? Ralph Lauren? David Sarnoff? Mortimer Zuckerman?
   And how many more Jews who are wealthy beyond measure? She is a frigging HYPOCRITE who has a very strong need to get…. unelected. (sigh)

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