[maggief]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/us/getting-ferguson-majority-to-show-its-clout-at-polls.html

Last weekend, Trayvon Martin’s father urged people to register as he appeared on stage at a peace rally in St. Louis. Over a period of several hours, though, few people came forward to register.

[Zhang Fei]

Last weekend, Trayvon Martin’s father urged people to register as he appeared on stage at a peace rally in St. Louis. Over a period of several hours, though, few people came forward to register.

Blacks voted at a higher rate than whites in 2012. If this rate is repeated in 2014, I'd expect a similar result to 2012, with no gains for the GOP.

Blacks voted at a higher rate this year than other minority groups and for the first time in history may also have voted at a higher rate than whites, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, election day exit poll data and vote totals from selected cities and counties.

Unlike other minority groups whose increasing electoral muscle has been driven mainly by population growth, blacks’ rising share of the vote in the past four presidential elections has been the result of rising turnout rates.

[PrincessB]

Please note that this happened on August 5. Stenger, Stream set to face-off in November election for (St. Louis) County Executive

The incumbent, Charlie Dooley, lost his primary 66% to 34%. My guess is that a lot of black people stayed home or tons of republicans and independents took democrat ballots to vote in this primary. The democrats would have the estimated statistics by now.

[X-spurt]

I’m bettin holders peoples won’t see much inspiration come November. This little MO dust-up has gone away as fast as it came up. Even they don’t believe that the halfrican has “had their back” very much and most of the coming election fights are for “whitey” causes.