Black voters continue to be loyal to Democrats, but there are signs that support continues to erode.
Maybe do something to make life better for them instead of just relying on “yea we’ve done nothing but republicans actively hate you” because that just ends up with disenfranchised voters who don’t vote
I think you’re exactly right.
People always seem to forgot even two party system is not a two bucket zero sum game. There is always that third pseudo party around, the sleeping peoples party. Losing voters to sleeping peoples party is exactly as good way to lose the election as is losing voters directly to the main rival party.
One can also win an election, not by stealing voters from the rival, but from the sleeping peoples party.
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Beat part is this works with black voters and non black voters too
What? You mean do something other than just scream Republicans bad and scary?!?!
Fuck’s sakes yes if we’re talking about sliding into fascism.
A good chunk of Black Americans are conservative Christian and would absolutely be Republican if it wasn’t for the overt racism. Same with Latinos.
Some of the people all of the time.
God I hate that we have this two party system
There is very clearly a party that wants your children to be ground up in a meat processing plant. The both sidesing on lemmy is goofy.
What? Is this a joke?
God I hate that we have this two party system
It’s created by first-past-the-post, I believe most of our national problems would be immediately solved by RCV. It encourages politicians to work together, makes third parties viable, and would provide much needed competition on both the right and left.
Dems have been having an ongoing issue with communication. They have to get loud about the accomplishments.
That’s very true. Republicans are very good at establishing the narrative and Democrats tend to just live in that narrative. Democrats need to get a little brazen and assertive.
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Democrats take almost all their voters for granted.
Except, I can’t imagine what policy a Black person would be attracted to in the Republican Party. As far as I can tell, that party is pretty much the opposite of Black/Brown/immigrant/non-white interests.
It’s fighting against Black voters staying home rather than voting for the republicans
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Everyone likes to threaten to withhold their vote. They rarely do at the end of the day. Republicans do the same.
Eroding support??? The dems have actually been doing work for once. What are you gonna do, vote for the other party that definitely wants you dead or at the very least abused and subjugated?
Jfc
Or not vote, which is much easier given all the GOP suppression efforts. No voting by mail in some states, removing places to vote in certain communities so you have to drive much farther and wait in longer lines, no 24 hour voting so you have to take off work, strict ID requirements that cost money some folks don’t have, etc.
It’s by design.
What are you gonna do, vote for the other party that definitely wants you dead or at the very least abused and subjugated?
You seem to forget there is a third option, the most likely option in such case. Just not turning up to vote at all.
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“After a lot of hand-wringing in recent years, elections next month in Mississippi and Virginia — two Southern states with large Black populations — will offer one final, robust read going into 2024 on the extent of the slippage among Democrats’ most reliable bloc of voters.”
Mississippi means NOTHING. They will not vote for a Democratic president and it has nothing to do with how strong or weak the black vote is there. They aren’t a Democratic state.
Source, every election since 1980. Carter broke it open in the South in 1976, but that was because he was from Georgia. The only Democratic win in Mississippi in my lifetime.
Virginia has a similar problem, but they have been voting blue since 2008, it would be super easy to see them revert to form.
This isn’t about carrying the state, it’s about using the election to understand black viters’ engagement and sentiment. A weak showing among black voters could indicate deeper issues more broadly.
I’ll say what I’ve been saying, I wish Biden had been primaried. He’s looking less and less like a guaranteed winner and having someone else viably in the race could have helped.
The Israel situation is not helping (in the near term, at least).
The Israel situation is not helping (in the near term, at least).
Yep. This is a issiue sensitive to many black folk in the USA as well. Democrats unwavering support for the police and more or less indifference to the worsening economic conditions for the black community at large will not help either.
Biden will also likely more formally deploy troops into the middle east after some sort of golf of Tonkin esque incident takes place in the Mediterranean.
More talk of war on terror after a pretty difficult recovery from the pandemic is not music to anyone ears, especially not the working class Black people who have a really hard time these last few years.
Biden is not the man who will get these people back on board.
When Obama won Virginia it surprised me. Same thing when Biden won Georgia. Everything is impossible until it’s possible.
Both states have seen large migrations recently, making them more liberal.
You’re welcome, said California home prices.
Tripe and Drivel.
How so?
You just can’t draw the article’s statements as even a reasonable conclusions without ignoring a whole host of things. They’re largely comparing a general election to a midterm election, Rs show up for midterms more reliably than Ds, a drop is basically expected. Even compared to the previous midterm, that was with a very polarizing R in office, so we’d also expect a higher D turnout than one with a D in office. Plus add in consideration for the effects of voter suppression that’s been building basically specifically targeted at the group in question.
This article is just bait created by someone who is either ignorantly or purposely misrepresenting the actual study’s implications.
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Rs show up for midterms more reliably than Ds
The last midterm might have been a sign that this is about to flip. Don’t get complacent, things don’t stay the same forever.
