Trump Polls At Zero Among Black Swing-State Voters
Source: Huffington Post
Trump garners a whopping zero percent of the electorate among African-American voters in key swing states, a slice of the population that lies at the intersection of two key constituencies.
The recent Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist poll shows that among the entire Ohio electorate, Clinton and Trump tie at 39 percent. Across Pennsylvania, Trump trails Clinton by a 9-point margin. Yet among Ohio and Pennsylvania black voters, Trump’s poll numbers are utterly appalling ― he yields zero percent of the black vote in these key swing states.
This comes as no surprise given Trump’s penchant for espousing politically incorrect statements, many of which have traditionally alienated minority voters. And new research from Pew shows that over half of the electorate says that treatment of minorities is very important to their vote for president; in fact, 82 percent of black voters say this is among the highest issue on their 2016 agenda.
The Cook Political Report characterizes African-American voters as “the overlooked key to 2016.” According to exit poll data from 2012, African-American voters accounted for Obama’s margin of victory in seven key states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada and Virginia. “Without these states’ 112 electoral votes,” the Cook Political Report writes, “Obama would have lost decisively.”
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