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One factor impacting voter turnout of Black Americans is that, as of the 2000 election, 13% of Black American males are reportedly ineligible to vote nationwide because of a prior felony conviction; in certain states – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – disenfranchisement rates for Black American males in the 2000 election were around 30% ...
Eric Heberlig, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said that Black voter turnout in North Carolina has decreased year after year since Barack Obama was ...
This played a critical role in North Carolina, as 95% of the state's registered African-American voters turned out, with Obama carrying an unprecedented 100% of African-American women, as well as younger African-Americans aged 18 to 29, according to exit polling. Comparatively, the overall turnout of voters statewide was 69%. [20]
But the Trump campaign has privately leaned on data from Democratic expert Tom Bonier’s website indicating that female voter turnout is down by about 170,011 in Arizona, 46,732 in Georgia ...
Local Dems say comparisons between 2020 and 2024 early voting numbers don’t paint the full picture.
Such seemingly disparate efforts all have a single goal: boost Black voter turnout ahead of Election Day. How Black communities turn out in the 2024 election has been scrutinized due to the pivotal role Black voters have played in races for the White House, Congress and state legislatures across the country.
The Obama-Biden ticket was the first winning ticket consisting of two sitting senators since 1960 (John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson) (in the previous election cycle Democrats also nominated two sitting senators, John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, but they lost to incumbents Bush and Cheney), and Obama became the ...
In 2008, Black voter turnout exceeded white turnout by 73% to 71%, helping Barack Obama to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry North Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976.