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发帖数: 734 | 1 JAN. 5, 11:00 PM
The Unique Importance Of Black Voters In Georgia
Black turnout is important for Democrats in every state, since 9 in 10 Black
voters back Democratic candidates. But the overall Black vote matters even
more in Georgia, because around 30 percent of the state’s electorate is
Black, compared to about 12 percent of the electorate nationally. We won’t
have detailed demographics information about this race in Georgia for a
while, but it is virtually certain that the plurality — and perhaps even an
outright majority — of Georgia voters for Ossoff and Warnock are Black.
Democrats spent a lot of time the last four years obsessing about states
like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and wooing white voters without
college degrees in particular. And while it’s not clear that Biden did that
much better than Hillary Clinton with white voters without college degrees,
he did win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But Georgia is a different
ball game, in part because of its big Black population. And notably, the
Democrats ran a campaign for these Senate seats that reflected the large
Black electorate in the state:
They embraced the approach of Stacey Abrams, a Black woman, of really trying
to boost turnout among voters of color, younger voters and those in the
Atlanta area.
They embraced two candidates with lots of ties to Atlanta’s Black community
. In Warnock, the pastor of the church MLK and his father ran, but also in
Ossoff, who worked for two Atlanta Black congressmen, the late John Lewis
and Hank Johnson.
And lastly, they embraced a kind of social justice message. Ossoff and
Warnock talked a lot about voting rights and other “Black” issues on the
campaign trail.
If Democrats win one or both of these races, I would expect them to run
similar campaigns to this in other states in the South with large Black
populations. |
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