Posted on 11/04/2024 4:58:40 PM PST by 11th_VA
Black voters – especially men – turned out in low numbers in Florida before Election Day, in a year with a choice between the first female presidential candidate of color and a Republican who has struggled with substantially negative perceptions by Black Americans.
Statewide, 48% of 1.78 million voters who identified as Black submitted mail ballots or visited polling places for early voting, compared to 61% of 8.51 million active white voters, according to a new analysis of government turnout data through the end of early voting Sunday. Among Black men, turnout was even lower at 44%, seven percentage points lower than Black women.
The 48% compares to 60% of Black voters who voted by mail or voted early at this point in 2020. Voting by mail among Black voters was down 50% since the last presidential election. About 70% of eligible Black voters cast a ballot four years ago, including voting on Election Day, according to state elections records.
The new figures include voting from Sunday, when churches in many counties across Florida conducted Souls to the Polls events to encourage civic participation.
In none of Florida’s 67 counties were Black voters casting early or mail ballots at the same rate as white voters. In largely white Sumter County in central Florida, white voters were turning out over Black voters by more than 30 percentage points. In nearby rural Hardee County, only about one-in-four Black voters had cast a ballot – compared to 48% of white voters.
Even in Gadsden County near Tallahassee, Florida’s only county with a majority Black population, turnout among Black voters was more than 13 points behind white voters.
In large urban areas, too, Black voter turnout also was low:
In Miami-Dade and Broward counties, Black turnout lagged behind white voters by 13% and 8%…
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Maybe some of them cannot stand the Idea of voting for republicans but have figured out that they are being used by the democrat party.
Blacks show up late? Quelle surprise!
If only there was a news event to distract Black women, as there was in 1994 - when the “glove don’t fit” happened the day before election day. The resulting Court TV record ratings the next day depressed the female vote and led to record gains for the GOP, and installed Gingrich as Speaker, the first since the 1950s.
Or have their votes for Trump been deleted...?
This seems to be the trend among Black voters in many states.
GA: Early vote for black voters in Columbus, GA is 80% of 2020 and for GOP leaning voters in the Columbus suburbs, it is 110% of 2020. Similar story across the state. Black voters just didn’t vote early at a sufficient rate. - From X
There is something about the name Kamala—apparently sounds Hindu instead of black.
If she had been smart enough to change it to Kamaleesha she might have had a better chance with her race scam.
Good. Whatever it takes to destroy the Demon Rat party.
I pray for amendments 3 and 4 to fail also.
Is it enough to get 60? Maybe.
Keisha.
There could be over a million old Biden votes cast in urban precincts tomorrow!
Are they that dumb?
Yes they are.
I’m really surprised that we haven’t seen a couple black churches mysteriously go up in flames in the last week. That’s the democrats usual scare tactic to get blacks to the polls when the numbers are lagging.
Since Harris took the nomination...crickets. I have not seen one single bumper sticker or have had one single person come up to me in the lunchroom singing the praises of Kamala. It is like the black community, or at least the black community in my area, simply does not care.
I was in the grocery store today, and two black stock clerks were talking, and both remarked how crazy people were today compared to “the 90’s” … lol they’d be shocked to have lived in the 50s/60s (minus the war protests)
OJ’s trial took place in 1995, which was not a Congressional election year. He tried the gloves on in June. You must b thinking of another event.
Totally anecdotal I admit but here goes. Today I passed through Oakland Park a very Black town in South Fla Broward County.
I noticed that in two sizable groups of political signs there was not one Harris sign.
This was not usual. Not a single Black candidate wanted to connect with Harris. But also surprising was two signs to vote against amendment 4 the expansion of abortion rights.
Mark Halperin is saying Harris is not doing well in any urban area.
The numbers in this piece support the possibility that Oakland Park is typical of Black Americans voting sentiment.
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