Posted on 12/30/2022 10:11:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Black voters have been a steady foundation for Democratic candidates for decades, but that support appeared to show a few cracks in this year’s elections.
Republican candidates were backed by 14% of black voters, compared with 8% in the last midterm elections four years ago, according to AP VoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate.
In Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp more than doubled his support among black voters to 12% in 2022 compared with 5% four years ago, according to VoteCast. He defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams both times.
If that boost can be sustained, Democrats could face headwinds in 2024 in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where presidential and Senate races are typically decided by narrow margins and turning out black voters is a big part of Democrats’ political strategy.
It’s too early to tell whether the 2022 survey data reflects the beginnings of a longer-term drift of black voters toward the GOP or whether the modest Republican gains from an overwhelmingly Democratic group will hold during a presidential year. Former President Donald Trump, who has announced his third run for the presidency, received support from just 8% of black voters in 2020, according to VoteCast. …
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Stop trying.
So, the GOP is doing better with black and Hispanic voters than they ever have, and independents preferred the GOP, but somehow the last two elections defied these data?
Really stupid. Black men are switching, and you just want to give up.
Shrill Karrens wanting to kill there babies.
No.
Let the fraud denial go.
Has naught to do with trying.
And it has everything to do with why the fraud increased.
Kayne West factor. Black men are realizing that they do not want to be manipulated by the Democratic Party. So as a result, more of them are voting Republican.
Agreed, placating is BS.
Trump improved the demo without pandering nor handouts — and that’s telling.
Increase in woke whites.
If these trends continue, I can see a crowd of white rich liberals screaming at a crowd of ‘minorities’ that they are white racists.
Black males tend to vote in measurably fewer numbers than black females.
Given the sources for such claims, I don’t know that to be the case.
No.
Forget it. Waste of money, time and breath. Dems for life, forever and ever amen. ‘Cause dat b were da free muny n free stuf b at.
Liberals are the worst kind of racists. They do not want black folks joining the middle class and moving to their neighborhoods. Most of all, they don’t want them leaving the Democrat plantation.
(((YAWN))) The Black voter block isn’t a big deal anymore with millions of Brown voter Invaders coming into this country these days. Brown is the new “black”. The RATs now prefer the illegal alien vote.
First thought dittoes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah….blacks are forever enslaved…
Ballot stuffing.
In the 1st Congressional of Indiana - Jennifer Ruth Green a Black Women and great candidate was running as the GOP Candidate for Congress. Graduate of the Air Force Academy - Gulf War Veteran - devout Christian - She campaigned at all of the Black Churches in the District. Blacks in Gary voted 92% for the Democrat Candidate. Jennifer Ruth Green lost by a small number of votes to the Do-Nothing Democrat because of the Black vote automatically going to the Dem.
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