Big trouble for Trump as voter turnout ‘explodes’ among blacks and Hispanics

[DonViejo]

Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

07 NOV 2016 AT 10:19 ET

Voter turnout among African American and Hispanic voters in the United States is surging, and this swell of minority participation could spell trouble for Donald Trump’s White House hopes.

On Sunday — the last day of early voting before Election Day on November 8 — hundreds of people attended “Souls to the Polls” events, aimed at encouraging churchgoers to vote across the key swing state of Florida.

Some came straight from morning worship, wearing three-piece suits and dresses as they made their way past dozens of campaigners hoisting signs for local candidates and urging support for solar energy and education issues.

At one event in central Miami, people held hands and prayed outside an early voting site, while at another in southern Miami-Dade County, about 20 African American men rolled in together on motorcycles.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/big-trouble-for-trump-as-voter-turnout-explodes-among-blacks-and-hispanics/

[smirkymonkey]

1. Awesome news!

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Trump is about to get his ass kicked by the very people he insulted!

Sweet justice!

[wordpix]

31. wooooot!

[yardwork]

3. Attempts at voter suppression backfired.

[Chakab]

4. This phenomenon along with the Trump campaign's lack of a ground game are not being represented in

the polls IMO.

Same thing happened in the last cycle when Obama outperformed most of polls. I believe that the disparity might be even greater this time.

[Crash2Parties]

42. Some polls admit they may be vastly undercounting ESL & non-english speaking voters (ie latinos)

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Souls to the Polls!!!!

OH, love it! Donnie can't comprehend that one

cause he doesn't have one

[kimbutgar]

20. When you start your campaign attacking a racial group you think they are going to accept it?

[Moonwalk]

24. Well, no, but his hope was that most Americans would agree with that attack....

...And outvote that racial group. Which they would have if (1) most American had agreed (Latinos are still a minority and could be outvoted) and (2) if Trump had stuck to one racial group. Sticking to one, Trump might have fooled everyone into thinking "oh, I'm safe, he's only after those people who are of this minority and here illegally..." But Trump didn't stick with vilifying Mexicans. He vilified Muslims, blacks, women, Jews, even the disabled. And that gives the game away.

Which is why the GOP is falling apart. Because he gave their game away. The way you're supposed to do it is to pick one minority to vilify and say "all problems are on them!" and then after you get into office on that, THEN you go after everyone on the list of "undesirables" (aka: not christian white and male. Also not rich, but, again, they don't tell their voters that.) It's worked incredibly well for them up to this point. But Trump, thinking he was living in 1950's America and had it in the bag if he got white male voters, didn't do the numbers. He didn't realize that if you add up minorities + women + non-Christians and toss in non-hetrosexual and disabled you end up with more voters than white-christian-males.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. Bigly Yuge!

[Lotusflower70]

27. Turning out the vote

As a Mexican American, I am proud to say I have spent a great deal of time with my family concentrating on getting out the vote in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. I am proud to do what I can.

[NastyRiffraff]

41. Excellent, and thank you!

I think all the GOTV work is going to pay off in a big (not bigly!) way.

[Xipe Totec]

28. Let the Blue Dawgs loose!

[left-of-center2012]

33. Just heard Trump say he's getting minority voters ...

CNN played a clip from a Trump speech given today in which Trump said African-American and Hispanic vote turn out is high and that's good because he's going to win a huge portion of that vote.

[madokie]

38. That is pretty fucking funny I have to agree

My wife is a nurse and she said one of the nurses, nurse ratchet, at her place is voting for tRump. We both laughed at that one.

[madokie]

37. This is all great news

lets just not get our hopes up too high just yet


my mother always said to never count your chickens before they hatch. I try to follow that advice.