The political world raised a collective, knowing eyebrow when
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that LaDavia Drane, the former
executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, was signing on to
be Clinton's director of African-American outreach. The announcement
came this past May and since then Drane clearly has been making good on that title.
Recent polls
show that Clinton, one of three Democratic presidential nominees, has
the support of 69% of South Carolina's most likely voters. And, those
likely voters are also most likely black.
Clinton's empathy points rose when she met with factions of the nation's hugely diverse communities of color, including Chicago mothers of children killed by gun violence in Chicago and leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement in Washington D.C.
"Policy matters," says Drane, 32. "I think that
we're living history. This is the first presidential campaign coming off
of what has been an extraordinary African-American president. The
African-American electorate is a sophisticated electorate."
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