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Charles Blow: Democrats' Black Male Voter Problem
Last edited Sun Sep 11, 2022, 07:01 PM - Edit history (1)
New York TimesIt’s hard for me to tell. While I wish I had the answers here, I don’t. But I will say that this trend appears to be bigger than just Georgia. We have seen a similar differential between Black men’s and Black women’s votes on the national stage. According to The Associated Press’s VoteCast survey, 12 percent of Black men voted for Donald Trump in 2020, compared with just 6 percent of Black women. This was consistent with 2016 levels, when 14 percent of Black men voted for Trump.
It 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 Abrams’s 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.”
What’s happening nationally may well be bleeding down into what’s 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 group’s website in 2019:
It 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 Abrams’s 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.”
What’s happening nationally may well be bleeding down into what’s 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 group’s 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 what’s said about politics generally, but progressive politics more specifically, are white men. The messaging they convey doesn’t speak to my lived experience as a Black man. It’s not motivating to me or to the brothas I know — uncles, cousins, friends, men like my father.
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