How far Could Jesse Jackson have got

Somewhat inspired by the Pat Buchanan thread, what is the furthest the Reverend gentleman could have got in US politic?

How?

Consequences?
 
Somewhat inspired by the Pat Buchanan thread, what is the furthest the Reverend gentleman could have got in US politic?

How?

Consequences?

He was too angry and too controversial. I once saw a lecture on race and politics, and the idea that was explained to us is essentially that suburban white voters see an angry black candidate, they begin to think "is he angry at me". That alone, aside from his actual policies, would have rendered his political career short and unsuccessful in politics.
 

FDW

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He might've become a Senator for one state (Illinois, New York, California?), or a representative in the right district (A very urban one that's either Liberal, poor, or both), but the presidency was probably beyond him.
 
Jesse Jackson maybe could have been a U.S. Congressman from Illinois like his son. Although Illinois elected first Carol Mosely Braun in 1992 and later Barack Obama in 2004 to the U.S. Senate, they were far less controversial and confrontational than Jackson. Their elections were descibed as being the result of the "Oprah Effect" (or perhaps the influence of the popular Cosby Show), namely that Mosely-Braun and Obama were soothing candidates and white suburbanites were comfortable with them (and vice-versa).

Jackson pushed statehood form the District of Columbia in the late 1980s and 1990s, as I recall. Presumably, he could and would have been elected to the U.S. Senate if "Columbia" became a state.
 
Jesse Jackson maybe could have been a U.S. Congressman from Illinois like his son. Although Illinois elected first Carol Mosely Braun in 1992 and later Barack Obama in 2004 to the U.S. Senate, they were far less controversial and confrontational than Jackson. Their elections were descibed as being the result of the "Oprah Effect" (or perhaps the influence of the popular Cosby Show), namely that Mosely-Braun and Obama were soothing candidates and white suburbanites were comfortable with them (and vice-versa).

Jackson pushed statehood form the District of Columbia in the late 1980s and 1990s, as I recall. Presumably, he could and would have been elected to the U.S. Senate if "Columbia" became a state.


RFK is not the originator of your quote.
 
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