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Ultimately, while debates about Black voters’ allegiance to the Democratic Party can be expected to continue (if anything they make for good media debates) history shows that a combination of ...
During the Obama era, some Democratic operatives had felt bullish that demographic destiny could help ensure long-term political dominance as the party seems to have a toehold on minority voters.
The Democratic Party also has considerable support in the small yet growing Asian American population. The Asian American population had been a stronghold of the Republican Party until the United States presidential election of 1992 in which George H. W. Bush won 55% of the Asian American vote, compared to Bill Clinton winning 31% and Ross Perot winning 15%.
Seeing a Black woman as the Democratic presidential nominee has certainly ignited an energy within voters I've interviewed. It's an enthusiasm these people say they didn’t feel two months ago.
Meanwhile, newly enfranchised black voters began supporting Democratic candidates at the 80–90 percent levels, producing Democratic leaders such as Julian Bond and John Lewis of Georgia and Barbara Jordan of Texas. Just as Martin Luther King Jr. had promised, integration had brought about a new day in Southern politics. [125]
Schaffner pointed to research that shows the non-Black secular vote in the Democratic Party is now a larger block than the Black vote in terms of accounting for Democratic vote share. And while ...
The Party decided that it must accept the risk and court the black vote. This strategy contained a degree of precedent in state politics: in the 1870s and 1880s, democrats and independents had sometimes used the same device when the white votes split.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Although opinion polls currently put President Donald Trump’s approval among black voters at between 20 and 30%, most experts doubt that anything like that proportion of ...