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3 theories why Democrats have lost support among Black men
Vox ^ | Oct 19, 2024 | Li Zhou

Posted on 10/19/2024 2:18:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

For years, Black men have been an integral part of the Democratic coalition.

In 2012, 87 percent of Black men backed former President Barack Obama; in 2016, 82 percent backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; and in 2020, 79 percent backed President Joe Biden, according to NBC exit polls. This year, 70 percent have said they’re backing Vice President Kamala Harris, per a recent New York Times/Siena poll.

As those numbers make clear, the group overwhelmingly supports Democrats, but their loyalty has begun to wane, a shift that stretches across the last several campaigns. That attrition has something to do with the candidates themselves, but also with voters’ longstanding disillusionment with the party. Despite being one of Democrats’ most loyal voting blocs, some Black voters have felt ignored and taken for granted as campaign promises and change have been slow to materialize.

“People are disappointed with the Democrats,” says David Childs, a history professor and director of the Black Studies Program at Northern Kentucky University. “A lot of people feel disenfranchised. They don’t feel like they have a voice.”

An added twist is some evidence that the Democrats’ leftward shift on social issues may also be a factor. Reviewing polling on respondents’ views on LGBTQ issues, Thomas Edsall of the New York Times noted that views expressed by Black voters in one survey suggested that “some aspects of Democratic liberal orthodoxy contribute to the exodus of conservative minorities from the party.”

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1 posted on 10/19/2024 2:18:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Men are tired of living in a dystopian vaginocracy.


2 posted on 10/19/2024 2:22:55 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Has there ever been a case of a campaign advertising for a group to stay home? They hate Trump (as most groups outside of our bubble) and don’t care who the trashy moron running as the opponent is.

Many will be lost Dem votes if black people stay home.


3 posted on 10/19/2024 2:24:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: wildcard_redneck
Obama is a "metrosexual". So that tactic didn't work.

They needed somebody more like Michael Jordan.

We all know that he's not interested in politics (credit to him).

4 posted on 10/19/2024 2:24:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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5 posted on 10/19/2024 2:25:15 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Jesse Watters on Kamala: “Men being lectured to and corrected by Kamala again. You know, men love being corrected by a woman. They just love it.”

As I’ve said, Kamala’s eyebrows being arched and up all the time along with that whiny schoolmarm, chastising Karen sound of her nasal voice, are BIG TURNOFFS TO MALES.

Like “I have noticed 10 things I want to work with you on improving. I know you’re open to this. I only have time for two on this first date but I’ll get to the others on our future dates.”

Insight from a book I read on relationships:
“Men have a negative reaction to women who consider a man to be a rehabilitation project for them.”


6 posted on 10/19/2024 2:30:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is it possible they are wising up? Just a thought.


7 posted on 10/19/2024 2:31:45 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
Because they are being pushed to the back of the bus.

The new "favored minority" is the criminal alien. So if you want a job so you can break into middle class rather then live on the government you will find your way blocked.

The criminal alien is going to get that job because he will work for less money. The reason he works for less money is the government is picking up his rent and food bill.

Which means that rent and food now cost more.

His kids get preference over yours in school and in college.

"The Great Replacement" is not about getting rid of "White People" (whatever that means) anymore. Every Native Born American has a target on their back. And that includes you.

Black women have not quite caught on yet because they are still on the "preferred minority" list but only just.

Black men are off the list entirely.

8 posted on 10/19/2024 2:36:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s almost impossible to fool a black man twice. Whites...easy.


9 posted on 10/19/2024 2:37:30 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: wildcard_redneck

not black men.

They’re tired of being told “you were screwed and it can never be remedied, so we’ll take care of you”

And they’ve been replaced by Hispanic illegals as the dems’ new favorite shiny toy.

And maybe they want a house, and a nice car, and it’s CRAZY but a WIFE and kids, a good job they can work hard at and do better and better in life.

Maybe they’re waking up.

Americans of Italian descent told democrats go to hell in the 1970s after realizing they were being used for decades by dems.

We also became less and less distuingishable from all other whites and got tired of the “ethnicity” nonsense from dems.

They moved on to race...bigger pools of people.

Now descendant of Italians vote Big Majority R.

I hope the blacks truly turn things around and are waking up


10 posted on 10/19/2024 2:39:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Salman

You can’t afford a damn fast food burger and get lectured about how you as a man are the problem. No matter your race, it gets old after a while.


11 posted on 10/19/2024 2:43:15 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: MinorityRepublican
some aspects of Democratic liberal orthodoxy contribute to the exodus of conservative minorities from the party.”

Didn't Richard Pryor say that line to Garrett Morris in a scene in Car Wash? Maybe not. Could have been Cedric the Entertainer in Barbershop.

12 posted on 10/19/2024 2:54:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

Actually, Cedric did make some remarks that Rosa Parks just sat down once on a bus and he did that lots of times.


13 posted on 10/19/2024 2:56:04 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

I recall Pat Buchanan being confronted by an elderly Jewish voter in FL who said she accidentally voted for him because the folded ballot was confusing. He told her if she was going to call him and anti-semite, that he did not want her vote.


14 posted on 10/19/2024 2:57:24 PM PDT by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Theories?…Can’t just ask a black guy…?


15 posted on 10/19/2024 3:00:49 PM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: dp0622

So do I.


16 posted on 10/19/2024 3:06:01 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I still like the “ex-wife/girlfriend theory” that did in Hellary.


17 posted on 10/19/2024 3:07:56 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because the Democrats are users and manipulators.


18 posted on 10/19/2024 3:09:04 PM PDT by yldstrk
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To: frank ballenger

Yeah, well women have the same negative reaction to being treated like a project.


19 posted on 10/19/2024 3:10:10 PM PDT by yldstrk
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I still like the “ex-wife/girlfriend theory” that did in Hellary.

Nah. That's Kamala.

Hillary reminds you of your mother in law.

20 posted on 10/19/2024 3:10:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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