Posted on 10/28/2020 2:55:26 PM PDT by RandFan
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden plans to air 90-minute radio programs on gospel stations across the country this weekend urging Black voters to head to the polls in a final sprint of early voting before Tuesday’s elections.
The Biden campaign will pay about $109,000 to air the programs on 29 radio stations in seven states, according to sources watching the advertising market. The programs are set to air in Ohio, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Democrats typically run Souls to the Polls programs aimed at Black churches in the final weekends before a November election, when some of the party’s most loyal voters crowd onto buses and head en masse to polling places nearby their houses of worship.
Those programs look different this year because of the pandemic, which has fallen disproportionately on Black and Brown Americans. The radio play is a way to reach those voters even if they cannot attend church in person on Sunday.
A Biden campaign spokesman did not have additional details to add about what the programs would feature.
But Biden, more than most Democratic candidates, owes his success to Black voters. After stumbling badly in the first three contests in the 2020 primary, he won big in South Carolina, on the strength of his support among Black voters and aided by a key endorsement from Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.).
Days later, Biden used that win to steamroll through the rest of the Democratic field on Super Tuesday.
Early voting data show African American voters are turning out in droves to vote early, just as in previous years. More than 5.4 million Black voters have cast a ballot so far this year, up from about 3 million at this point in the 2016 contest, according to TargetSmart Consulting, a Democratic firm tracking the early vote.
In several states including Texas and Georgia, the number of older Black voters who have cast a ballot already exceeds the total number who voted in 2016, including on Election Day.
More than 3.3 million Black voters over the age of 50 have already cast a ballot. About 357,000 Black voters have already cast their first-ever ballots this year, and another 1.1 million African Americans who cast ballots infrequently have voted.
If you don’t vote for me then you ain’t black.
Targeting blacks? Racis bass turd!
Looks like!
Who is going to listen to a 90 minute radio program? I highly doubt this will help Biden.
That’s pretty patronizing, isn’t it? Sad that the folks they’re targeting don’t see it that way.
An hour and a half long message from Bought Joe? Gripping radio, I’m sure.
“Yo, Yo, Yo...My name is Joe...”
And you’re a junkie. Come on man!
Oh, this should be good.
Oh like the Roosevelt’s fireside chats in the 1940s.....just wow.
Radio shows were all the rage back in Joe’s day. This is a crazy idea.
That’s pretty patronizing, isn’t it? Sad that the folks they’re targeting don’t see it that way.
More and more see it as it is. The Democrats treat blacks like they are incapable of standing in line to exercise their constitutional right to vote and show a simple ID. That crap has to be getting old for minorities to hear.
The news agencies will synopsize the 90 minutes down to 2-3 15 second sound bites for people to understand and to filter out all of Biden’s gaffs.
Have to ride those Rush Limbaugh coattails Joe.
Is he going to DJ?
Tell tall tales of Corn Pop and being arrested trying to visit Neslon Mandela?
the pandemic, which has fallen disproportionately on Black and Brown Americans.
The propaganda just never stops.
I guess when that’s all you have...
what a bunch of BS—the reason they are doing this is Black turnout is WAAAY down
The gaff’s in this, the face planting, the cringe-worthiness of this, should be epic.
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