Washington Post: Black voters determine 2016 race.

[Colilluminati]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ack-voters-could-determine-the-2016-election/

African-American voters turned out at unprecedented levels to support Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. But in 2015, my colleague Robert Samuels found in Jacksonville, Fla., that some blacks are disillusioned that Obama's election hasn't noticeably improved their lives.

They are also skeptical of Hillary Clinton's 2016 candidacy. Among their comments:

“What was the point?” asked Motley, 23, a grocery store clerk. “We made history, but I don’t see change.”

“Hillary needs to prove to us that she’s genuine and really true. And I'm not even sure that would help. We’ve been snakebitten too many times before.”

Samuels's story hits on one of the biggest unknowns going into the 2016 election: How much African Americans' peaking voter turnout in 2008 and 2012 was due to the first black major-party nominee/president being on the ballot? And will it will fall precipitously in the absence of one in 2016? Because African Americans have historically supported Democrats by overwhelming margins (85 percent on average in presidential elections going back to 1972), this kind of turnout shift matters hugely.

Democrats cannot choose between a vote-share or turnout drop, and these factors might both trend downwards in 2016. The question is how much. What these numbers show is how important maintaining high support and turnout among African Americans is to Democrats' success in 2016, and how Hillary or whoever is the Democratic nominee has their work cut out for them in repeating 2016 success.

 

[Flash Thunderton]

The huge majority of the black vote will go to the democratic candidate so



There's literally no point in discussing when we all know what's gonna happen.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

The huge majority of the black vote will go to the democratic candidate so



There's literally no point in discussing when we all know what's gonna happen.

nobody knows shyt, breh. I think it's disgusting that federal election season is 4 years long so I try not to participate in the bullshyt. We don't know what's going to happen because they haven't picked a democratic nominee yet. There needs to be some kind of reconciliation. Blacks want to be treated equally and respectfully but don't want to participate or talk about shyt because "it's fixed". It's never fully fixed. We can't be defeatist and complain.

at them quoting a bagboy from florida about politics. it took 150 years after slavery to even get a black president. do you think that every nikka is going to have a maybach in just 8. folks want to bring up the gruesome narrative of america and its slow systematic changes until they try to do something and then it's "well why aint it fast enough". obama aint lbj, jfk. . we don't even live in anything close to those times but i guarantee if nikkas sit this round out like they did the 2014 elections we are fukked. america is not about YOU seeing change in 8 years. it's about our children having it better and all people being afforded OPPORTUNITY. i'm not saying the system is anywhere close to perfect but

 

[DrX]

nikkas are idiots....fukk would anyone still believe in the system for?

 

[Drones]

It doesn't matter which party we vote for, it matters who we put money on. That's why Obama kisses police ass, because their union put money on him via campaign contributions. We have to focus on putting money on these candidates and not going for the okey-doke when they show up at a black church doing the Electric Slide.

 

[Michael9100]

Hopefully we get a thread where all coli posters divulge who they voted for...


I already know which party I'm supporting...

 

[↓R↑LYB]

It doesn't matter which party we vote for, it matters who we put money on. That's why Obama kisses police ass, because their union put money on him via campaign contributions. We have to focus on putting money on these candidates and not going for the okey-doke when they show up at a black church doing the Electric Slide.

You know most these nikkas ain't doing that breh

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

nikkas are idiots....fukk would anyone still believe in the system for?

what system?