GOTV-- black voters in Georgia

[LymphocyteLover]

Long but good piece:

"Although Donald Trump won Georgia by just 211,000 votes in 2016, some 900,000 eligible black people stayed home, a majority of them Atlanta residents. They were unconvinced that voting for the Democratic candidate would mean getting a president who represented them."
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"If Democrats invest in an enormous marketing and organizing campaign that persuades black people and young people to participate in our democracy, we will win. That campaign should answer uncomfortable questions about what happened in Georgia in 2018 and explain how this year will be different. Through millions of personal conversations, organizers can connect the dots between who makes decisions that puts their lives at risk and who can make things better. That’s how we can show young people grieving the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in South Georgia that voting is a way to create real change by electing new sheriffs and prosecutors.

Campaigns never balk at investing significant resources to court moderate white men. But when all the data is laid out about black people, why does the political industry hesitate? Black people have long been the most loyal supporters of the Democratic Party — indeed, no other major voting bloc is as loyal to a political party as black people.

Every 10 new black voters nets eight Democratic votes, but the party gets only two net votes for every 10 new white, college-educated female voters. Democrats have to stop treating black people as deserving of only mailers after Labor Day and instead see them as the core of the multiracial coalition."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/opinion/stacey-abrams-coronavirus-black-voters-2020.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. Very important issue...

GOTV!!!

And, let's really work to address problems that help black and brown voters.

[LymphocyteLover]

2. Yes, indeed-- we can do this!

I'm hoping Biden will pick a black woman as VP candidate. Could really help this.

[Wounded Bear]

6. There are at least a couple of really well qualified black women to choose from...

[ibegurpard]

3. You would think this would be common knowledge

If it's not then why?

[LymphocyteLover]

4. what part being common knowledge?

[ibegurpard]

5. That outreach and registration work to black voters

Is something that should be an enormous priority. That should be common knowledge.

[LymphocyteLover]

8. It should be, I agree. I don't think it is.

[crickets]

10. GA is considered a lost cause and is usually written off by the DNC.

This is a mistake, but it happens election after election. With a little more effort, GA could turn blue. Often, the votes are there overall -- as in every state some regions are redder/bluer than others -- yet vote suppression, questionable voting machines, and lackluster GOTV are enough to consistently tip it red. It's frustrating.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. Yeah-- absolutely. And Stacey Abrams probably flipped it but got robbed

[crickets]

13. No question she got robbed. nt

[LymphocyteLover]

15. that was the most blatantly crooked election I've seen in a while

Not sure how Brian Kemp lives with himself.

[ffr]

7. What's in it for me, then I'll come out and vote?

I don't think this way, but apparently other democrats do.

How about look around you, at the destruction and downfall of our country, not to mention the open racism?

Democrats shouldn't have to sweeten the deal for any demographic. Get up off your dead ass and do what is right for your country! Godammit!

Once democrats have a supermajority, like they have in California, then we-the-people will have government that works for all of us. Until then, do what's right, without having to be told to do it.

[LymphocyteLover]

9. I hear you, but that's politics

way too many apathetic people out there, even in our present Trumpian mess

[Cha]

11. I know.. that's too bad.. anyone feels like that.

[Blue_true]

14. I believe that a republican openly embracing racist dog whistles and

Black people having been assaulted at his rallies would encourage people to come out against him and vote.