Posted on 11/02/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by Theoria
African-Americans are failing to vote at the robust levels they did four years ago in several states that could help decide the presidential election, creating a vexing problem for Hillary Clinton as she clings to a deteriorating lead over Donald J. Trump with Election Day just a week away.
As tens of millions of Americans cast ballots in what will be the largest-ever mobilization of early voters in a presidential election, the numbers have started to point toward a slump that many Democrats feared might materialize without the nation’s first black president on the ticket.
The reasons for the decline appear to be both political and logistical, with lower voter enthusiasm and newly enacted impediments to voting at play. In North Carolina, where a federal appeals court accused Republicans of an “almost surgical” assault on black turnout and Republican-run election boards curtailed early-voting sites, black turnout is down 16 percent. White turnout, however, is up 15 percent. Democrats are planning an aggressive final push, including a visit by President Obama to the state on Wednesday.
But in Florida, which extended early voting after long lines left some voters waiting for hours in 2012, African-Americans’ share of the electorate that has gone to the polls in person so far has decreased, to 15 percent today from 25 percent four years ago.
The problems for Democrats do not end there. In Ohio, which also cut back its early voting, voter participation in the heavily Democratic areas near Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo has been down, though the Clinton campaign said it was encouraged by a busy day on Sunday when African-American churches led voter drives across the state.
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Don’t worry. Dimocrat activists are already burning down black churches and painting Trump’s name on them.
Looks like some Black voters want off the Plantation.
Encouraging to see some blacks willing give Trump a chance.
The democrats have done nothing for blacks except enslave them.
Vote Trump!
I am certain that the Obama IRS will be swiftly reviewing the tax exempt status of all these churches that participated in the voter drive.
The Hispanic vote will save Hillary all over the place. I am STUNNED how huge that population has gotten even since 2012.
No, Hispanic men won’t vote for a woman President.
Good!
He lives a life like they’ve only seen in music videos.
No, it’s a call to the ‘rumors’ who do read the Times.
I do not know how spell level got ‘rumor’ out of ‘elite.’
She must not have her bottle of hot sauce with her.
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