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New York TimesIt should be noted that Black men vote Democratic at a higher rate than other men, but the slippage is concerning for Democrats. As The New York Times reported last week, Georgia Democrats have begun to fret about Abramss chances because, Though she is beloved by Democratic voters, she has lost some ground with Black men, who provided crucial backing in her narrow loss to Mr. Kemp in 2018.
Whats happening nationally may well be bleeding down into whats happening in states like Georgia.
In 2019, the political consultant W. Mondale Robinson founded the Black Male Voter Project, an advocacy group, to solve this very problem by trying to help Black men believe in the electoral process again. As he wrote on the groups website in 2019:
I wound up doing campaign work for a long time, and one thing I noticed right away was that most of the people who determine whats said about politics generally, but progressive politics more specifically, are white men. The messaging they convey doesnt speak to my lived experience as a Black man. Its not motivating to me or to the brothas I know uncles, cousins, friends, men like my father.
Hekate
(90,496 posts)elleng
(130,646 posts)That's like chickens voting for colonial sanders
brush
(53,721 posts)percentile for Democrats. The only group higher is Black women. No other group is close so IMO this is being overly hyped by republicans.
Black men as a whole are pragmatic voters and vote for what is best for themselves. They don't necessarily identify with leftist progressives but certainly not with the maga republicans. The revelations of trump's crimes and doc thefts by the DOJ and J6 Committee will put a stop to this republican hype that's being sent out.
Of larger concern is white women and the growing move to republicans by some Latinos.
We know where the vast majority of white men stand.
BeyondGeography
(39,339 posts)obamanut2012
(26,027 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,142 posts)that's it! (IMO) same problem everywhere you look
ColinC
(8,272 posts)Demsrule86
(68,440 posts)conviction has much to do with the loss of such votes for Democrats.
emulatorloo
(44,046 posts)What are you trying to say?
TigressDem
(5,125 posts)WHO in the Democratic world wants to give every black man a felony conviction?
Where did you hear this?
Link please.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,769 posts)Game has always had that as the goal.
JI7
(89,233 posts)against Karen Bass who is a black women. Rick Caruso is running to get more tough on crime.
Black men supported the tough on crime Eric Adams for Mayor in NYC .
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)Voted for dump in 2016 believed in the electoral process? So maybe that isn't the issue here.
Kenny B
(23 posts)61% of white men voted for Trump
55% of white women
Combined, those two make up over 65% of the vote.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html
JI7
(89,233 posts)black women as much as they have supported Democrats in the past.
Yes, other groups are worse . But in places like Georgia small changes can affect outcome.