Democrats are losing their most loyal voters: black women.

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Democrats are losing their most loyal voters: black women.

Democrats are losing their most loyal voters: black women.
Graham Vyse2 days ago

At a moment when so much attention is focused on how Democrats can win white working class voters who backed President Donald Trump, new data shows support for the party is slipping among its most reliable voters—94 percent of whom supported Hillary Clinton last year. (Older black women in particular constitute the party’s electoral base.) According to a Black Women’s Roundtable/ESSENCE poll released on Wednesday, “The majority of Black women continue to believe in the Democratic Party, although the support dropped significantly in a year. In the 2016 survey, Black women overwhelmingly (85%) felt the Democratic Party best represented their interest.” That number fell to 74 percent this year.

These voters aren’t running into the arms of Republicans, of course—just one percent of respondents said the GOP best represents them. But the percentage of black women who said neither party represents them jumped from 13 percent in 2016 to 21 percent in 2017. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat in the Congressional Black Caucus, addressed the news after the poll’s release at theWashington Convention Center. “I respect independents. I understand independents,” she told the crowd, arguing that her party needs to do more to communicate its values. “I’ve never said I’m in the Democratic Party because I like to party,” she said. “I’m in there because of values.”

Speaking to reporters, Jackson Lee attributed the decline in support to younger voters. “Every generation has a different way of looking at life,” she said. Today’s young people came of age under President Barack Obama when “all was well,” so now the Democratic Party needs to “talk values” particularly to younger black women. Jackson Lee insisted she’s “not daunted at all” by the drop off in support, but had a clear message for her party. “Democrats do well to listen to the standard-bearers of the party,” she said. “We need to shine our armor. We need to buff up our teapot.”

 

[King Sun]

Only so many times you can keep promising people policies and it doesn't happen

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Your idol Hillary would be doing a huge favor talking about these issues that Democrats face instead of bytching about the election and Bernie.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Your idol Hillary would be doing a huge favor talking about these issues that Democrats face instead of bytching about the election and Bernie.

She can walk and chew gum: All of the times Hillary Clinton apologizes and admits being wrong in her book

 

[General Mills]

About time

 

[DEAD7]

 

[ORDER_66]

Only so many times you can keep promising people policies and it doesn't happen

#FACTS the democrats have reaped what they have sown... Alot of black people are waking up to their bullshyt...

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

She can walk

Unless it's slightly warm.

 

[ezrathegreat]

 

[ORDER_66]

Unless it's slightly warm.

She was fukked up...

 

[DlAMONDZ]

so much attention is focused on how Democrats can win white working class voters who backed President Donald Trump

To white people, the Democratic Party = blacks, mexicans, gays and muslims

Good luck getting them to vote for you

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Then who the hell are they voting for? There are not enough black people to swing elections, especially in the rust belt. White people would LOVE for black folks to just stop voting Democrat, because they now see what happens when whites show up to vote. They put race above everythhing else, because they view Dems as anti-white. Most of the white people complaining about Trump are just pretending to hate him, because they want to be liked.

 

[theworldismine13]

Just a matter of time before @wickedsm comes around

 

[88m3]

usual c00ns didn't even read the article

 

[wickedsm]

Just a matter of time before @wickedsm comes around