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Black Votes Matter PAC suspends operations ("We think the race is over")
nypost.com ^ | October 23, 2016 | 4:59pm | Updated | By Carl Campanile

Posted on 10/26/2016 4:50:42 PM PDT by 11th_VA

A group founded earlier this year to help mobilize black turnout for the Nov. 8 elections has suspended operations, The Post has learned.

Black Votes Matter PAC was created to address concerns about a drop-off in the black vote without President Obama, the first African-American elected to the White House, on the ballot.

Black Votes Matter PAC founder Charlie King said the allies in Hillary Clinton’s camp made it known that a separate, third-party effort wasn’t needed to turn out the African-American vote.

“We stopped pushing a couple of weeks ago. They didn’t think Black Votes Matters was needed to get out the African-American vote. We had a lot of people geared up,” said King, a former director of the New York State Democratic Party who has ties to the Rev. Al Sharpton, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the black political establishment.

King had been working with groups including the NAACP and Urban League.

King said the black turnout won’t equal the historic percentage of African-American voters who flocked to the polls in 2008 and 2012 to back Obama. But he said the black turnout should be robust enough to help Clinton defeat GOP rival Donald Trump.

“We think the race is over,” he said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: black; blacks; blackvote; blackvotesmatter; election; georgesoros; naacp; soros; urbanleague
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To: Gaffer
Yeah, and things have gotten pretty quiet.

I would imagine all these groups are in disarray right now. Particularly the newer ones with newer faces. They don't know who to trust, who is a double agent, etc.

Also, I'd imagine they have gotten pretty sloppy over the DECADES they've been operating with nearly no fear of any real opposition or fear of the other side. (thanks again, GOP!)

21 posted on 10/26/2016 5:08:52 PM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: Gaffer

Costs big dollars to “Haul the Vote”. Perhaps the Trump is going to do so well they can’t afford the price to haul enough votes to make the difference.


22 posted on 10/26/2016 5:09:45 PM PDT by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: 11th_VA

Early voting in NC black turnout is down 30% from 2012 so far


23 posted on 10/26/2016 5:09:52 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: 11th_VA

Our great republic is becoming a tribal republic.


24 posted on 10/26/2016 5:10:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: 11th_VA

The dindoo nuffins are gonna’ be crying into their malt liquors on election eve.


25 posted on 10/26/2016 5:10:47 PM PDT by Bullish (The fly on Hillary's forehead knows)
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To: 11th_VA

So what they are saying is that Black votes DON’T matter...


26 posted on 10/26/2016 5:11:11 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Jeff Chandler

“We think the race is over,” he said.

Ray Charles could see that.

Victory for Trump!


27 posted on 10/26/2016 5:13:00 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: 11th_VA; All

i am usually in the Bronx two to three times a week. Usually north Bronx down Baychester Avenue. For the most part its obama groupies but tonight, driving down to see two clients I noticed something I have NEVER witnessed...attached to the chimney of row house on a flag pole was an American flag and just below it?

A GADSEN/DON’T TREAD ON ME/TEA PARTY FLAG!!!

does Trump win the Bronx?? unlikely- but it tells me black Americans are starting to wake up!!


28 posted on 10/26/2016 5:14:33 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: rb22982

Bruthers & Sistuhs just cant bring themselves to vote for Bill’s pastyazz Ho.

she aint no Obama.


29 posted on 10/26/2016 5:15:05 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: Gaffer

they are gimmefreesh1t people not giveawayoursh1t people.


30 posted on 10/26/2016 5:16:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Gasshog
A black Preacher was asked why no signs for Trump in the Hood

He said you saw what happened in North Carolina but the only motivated voters are Trump Voters

He thinks most blacks stay home

31 posted on 10/26/2016 5:16:46 PM PDT by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: Gaffer

They done spent all da money on wimmen, malt liquor, and cartons of Kools. Sheet, der won be no mo on erection day.


32 posted on 10/26/2016 5:16:59 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
--Hillary's meeting with Stevie Wonder today just shows how obsolete her thinking is when it comes to black support.

You ever heard of this Stevie Wonder person?

33 posted on 10/26/2016 5:19:37 PM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: Billyv
Costs big dollars to “Haul the Vote”. Perhaps the Trump is going to do so well they can’t afford the price to haul enough votes to make the difference.

Or they think that Trump is very likely to win, and if he does, he will order a major FBI effort to hunt down vote fraud offenders and put them in prison.

34 posted on 10/26/2016 5:23:57 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: 11th_VA

They finally figured out that besides hating Jews (which BLM is okay with), Hillary despises black people. Why waste their time helping someone who thinks they are beneath contempt?


35 posted on 10/26/2016 5:24:40 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hillary's meeting with Stevie Wonder today just shows how obsolete her thinking is when it comes to black support. She's hanging out with yesteryear black celebrities. Many younger blacks don't know or don't care who Stevie Wonder is. They don't know who Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton is. They don't know who the NAACP is or what their original intent was. Hillary is stuck in the past.

Maybe the rappers scare her.

36 posted on 10/26/2016 5:25:56 PM PDT by x
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To: 11th_VA

bye bye


37 posted on 10/26/2016 5:30:18 PM PDT by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: goldstategop
How can ABC and AP be wrong?

Hillary is getting a tsunami voter turnout. They fell for it.

To the bitter end for these clowns.

This is what I expect from trAssh Press:



38 posted on 10/26/2016 5:30:24 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: 11th_VA

No, their sugar daddies realized it was a big backfire.


39 posted on 10/26/2016 5:31:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 11th_VA

I voted today in NC. The line was out the door at the library. There were 4 white women, including myself and 1 white man, the rest were black. Most of the black voters had premarked sample ballots to “remind” them how to vote. This was my third attempt to vote, long lines out the door every time we went by. I had hoped to avoid waiting in line but today gave in. Anyway I am not seeing any indication that the black vote is down. The lines seem to be longer than in the past, at least where I live, and I have always voted the first time I go unlike this year.


40 posted on 10/26/2016 5:38:51 PM PDT by kalee
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