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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% ...
Biden won Henrico County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, and Fairfax County with 63.7%, 61.5%, 63.6%, and 69.9%, respectively; all four were former suburban bastions of the Republican Party in Virginia, the first outside Richmond and the others in Northern Virginia. All four had voted Republican in every election from 1968 through 2000.
Information from the John Locke Foundation found that, for the 2020 election, over 753,000 Black voters took part in early voting. So far in 2024, and with just days to go before early voting ends ...
In the last two presidential elections, the turnout percentage of Black women was greater than all other demographic groups, yet has not translated into more Black women in office nor political power for Black women. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe credits Black women for his win in the state. [148] Black women-owned businesses are the ...
Between the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections alone, the turnout gap grew by 5 percentage points between white voters and nonwhite voters, and it grew by 8 points between white voters and Black ...
Any gender gap in the Black community is indicative of a much larger gender nationally. Acc ording to CNN exit polls, women voters leaned toward Harris by 10 points, but not at the levels they did ...
Turnout for the presidential election is not yet final, but it’s clear that fewer people voted in 2024 compared with 2020. Comparing the two elections, Donald Trump added about 2.8 million votes ...
Maggie L. Walker, an African American businesswoman and the first woman in the United States to establish and serve as president of a bank, [12] [13] chaired a committee of female activists that held mass meetings to encourage black women to vote. [14] Virginia women were only given one month to register to vote before the November 1920 ...