Posted on 05/10/2017 4:54:41 PM PDT by blam
Back in September 2016 we noted that unprecedented black voter turnout was a huge component of Obamas victories in both 2008 and 2012. After running in the low-to-mid 50% range for decades, black voter participation surged to over 60% for Obama in 2008 and 2012, the highest levels ever recorded.
As we noted then, the key question for Hillary in 2016 was whether she should expect the same level of unprecedented black voter turnout that Obama was able to garner in his two elections? Now, courtesy of new 2016 voter data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau, we now know definitively that the answer to that question is a resounding NO.
After surging to 62% in 2012, an all-time record high, Black voter turnout once again dipped back to its historical range in 2016 with only 56% of Black voters turning up to support Hillary. Just doing some simple math, there are roughly 245 million voting age people in the United States and just over 13% of them, or 32.5 million, are Black. Therefore, a 6% decline in turnout equates to roughly 2 million votes, the overwhelming majority of which would have undoubtedly gone to Hillary.
Of course, despite the Russian Hacking blame game still being played by Clinton, as we noted back in September she and her team were acutely aware of their small enthusiasm issue among African American voters.
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Black voters not liking Hillary elected Trump.
Fewer than 100,000 deplorable voters spread across a handful of states elected Trump.
The Russians ransacking Hillarys computer files and strategically leaking the truth elected Trump.
FBI Director Comey announcing a criminal investigation into Hillarys felonies just over a week before the election, when he had little reason to think there was anything there, elected Trump.
People hating Hillary because she is so professional, so polished, such a wonderful lawyer, so brilliant, so good, so righteous, and so much better than us elected Trump.
The lack of energy among Hillary supporters and expectations of Hillary being the inevitable winner, because it was her turn, elected Trump.
Robby Mook selecting the wrong travel stops for Hillary and spending heavily in the wrong states elected Trump.
Hillarys campaign team failing to hone her message and get voters to the polls elected Trump.
Bill Clintons appearance of an inappropriate meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch elected Trump.
Blatant sexism elected Trump.
Wikileaks elected Trump.
The ugly stew of racism elected Trump.
Hillarys alleged lack of likability and claimed lack of trustworthiness elected Trump.
Self-hating women elected Trump.
Evangelical, Catholic, anti-marriage equality, and anti-choice social conservatives elected Trump.
Misogyny elected Trump.
Hatred of Hillary Clinton at the FBI (how could anyone hate a lovable woman like Hillary?) elected Trump.
Sinister outside forces elected Trump.
Whitelash elected Trump.
Democrat policies that favor the rich elected Trump.
Failure to talk to working-class white voters elected Trump.
FBI investigation elected Trump.
Email scandal elected Trump.
Men elected Trump.
Lower-level FBI agents pressuring their Director (because thats how professional relationships work) elected Trump.
Tim Kaine gave Hillary Virginia, but he also elected Trump.
White women elected Trump.
Racists elected Trump.
Sexists elected Trump.
Rural voters elected Trump.
The working class voting against their own interests elected Trump.
Fake news elected Trump.
Facebook elected Trump.
Supermarket tabloids elected Trump.
Celebrity (The Apprentice) elected Trump.
White male resentment elected Trump.
Over-shaming Trump supporters elected Trump.
Rejecting Bernie elected Trump.
Reagan democrats elected Trump.
Gary Johnson and Jill Stein voters elected Trump.
Backlash against political correctness elected Trump.
There are many terrible reasons for President Trumps victory, but there are two things that were not a factor. First, Hillary was the perfect candidate; nothing she did harmed her candidacy in any way. Second, President Trump was the worst candidate imaginable; nothing he did helped his candidacy at all, except with racists, sexists, bigots, and the rest of the basket of deplorables.
Like this:
So blacks and whites do have something in common after all...
Like nails on a blackboard.
“potatoes for the Irish, and some crackers for white folks.”
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The last time I checked Irish WERE white folks.
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What about the Black Irish?
They too can dislike Ms Clinton.
“The last time I checked Irish WERE white folks.”
way back in the day, Irish immigrants were considered subhuman scum and grossly discriminated against and I doubt if they would have been included as “white” people then. you can ask Mrs. Catnipman about that as she’s descended from these Irish “scum” and the Irish even to this day still have memories of that discrimination.
Same with Jews and Eyetalians then, so I should have added that Hillary kept Matza balls in her purse for the Jews and spaghetti for the Eyetalians.
I am Boston Irish,my husband’s parents were born in Ireland-———they had it tough in the early days.
The old Yankee WASPs didn’t think too much of the Thick Micks. :-)
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Hillary has a track record of racism and so do black voters - especially since Obama.
And Mrs. Clinton actually did MUCH better than Sen. Sanders among blacks in the primaries. There will be a scramble to get a black man on the ballot as VP next time (Booker?) to try to fix that.
Obama was a novelty.
Would like to be taping Hillarys reaction when she sees this! I’m sure she would comment the terrific African American community just did not want to vote that day because they hated Trump so much
Would like to be taping Hillarys reaction when she sees this! I’m sure she would comment the terrific African American community just did not want to vote that day because they hated Trump so much
Not just black people. She is unlikable period.
It was her cringe-worthy cultural appropriation of Whip and Nay Nay.
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