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.
Is Joltin’ Joe now a talk show host?
Will he take seminar callers?
NOBODY has a 90 minute attention span anymore. Especially for blathering. If he can’t make his point (other than the one on his head) in under :60 seconds. OFF IT’LL GO. IF it went on in the 1st place.
Unlikely, in my opinion. The people he would have to target are those who listen to own preselected music via their phones these days and not on the radio. Exception, if they are at work and well the working person would be stupid to vote themselves into paying higher taxes.
Radio is only good for one thing. AM Talk Shows.
Wonder how many separate takes they’ll have to use.
Not that it matters - they may as well use semaphore as a 90-min radio message.
Just like Her Heinous’ use of that embarrassingly disingenuous Ebonics inflection when she talks to Black people. Ah suppose Jim Crow Joe won’ feel no ways tahred
LOL...he’s trying to copy POTUS, who had MILLIONS of listeners, on Rush’s show.
What a putz.
Total FAIL.
Trump should buy the ads, during these shows.
Interesting. His campaign thinks that instead of going to church on Sunday, black people will listen to a 90-minute harangue from Joe Biden.
I’m not seeing it, but they could be right.
Trump should do as Carter did on election eve 1976 - a half hour program responding to questions from voters. A laid back, homey type talk/Q & A.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?418054-1/carter-1976-election-eve-program
A program that long With Biden will put anyone to sleep
There is no one going to listen to Joe Biden for 90 mi utes on the radio NO WAY!!
“I highly doubt this will help Biden.
That may be true but he can do it from his basement and no one will know. If it’s edited will we ever know?
I hope it’s a live program. ;-P
Will he play this?: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8885009/Sasha-Obama-lip-syncs-profane-rap-song-viral-TikTok-video.html
They are spending a whopping $109k on this. Now that’s a commitment to black outreach!!!
I’m surprised he’s not just mailing out LPs to play on their record players.
The last time the Democrats did this and Black folks didn’t listen, the Democrats Created the KKK to enforce their vision of black people.
Shush. Joe knows what he’s doing.
Wow his internals must be terrible with blacks! This smells of big time desperation.
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