politics

I was told that Biden was the more electable candidate. If this was the case this shouldn’t be an issue right?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Democrats are worried about a potential drop next year in turnout among Black voters, the party’s most loyal constituency, who played a consequential role in delivering the White House to President Biden in 2020 and will be crucial in his bid for reelection.

Such warning signals were initially papered over by other Democratic successes in 2022: The party picked up a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock won reelection in Georgia and anticipated losses in the House were minimal.

Advocates expect that trend to continue, particularly with Vice President Harris on the ticket and the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who both made history as the first Black women in their roles.

Williams acknowledged any growth in support among Black voters could be harder for the GOP if Trump is the nominee — and there will be many other groups, including suburban White women, that the party will have to worry about in that case.

In Detroit, liberal organizers targeting Black turnout have made education about how politics work a centerpiece of their pitch, along with concrete examples of policies that have benefited people from state and federal legislation.

“There is a slow leaking of Black men from the base because the issues that they care about aren’t being addressed,” said Branden Snyder, executive director of Detroit Action, whose organizers tell people the exercise is more like writing a Yelp review to spur change.

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Wait, Black people won't vote for a cognitively disabled old fart who's politics are out of touch with the needs of a Black community and catered to loony white leftists? Fuck me, I'm surprised.

Pay very close attention to the fact that they are using races for voter projections.

Take that information as you will.

I think it's a losing message to campaign on "everything is fine" when the vast majority of Americans are struggling.

Breaking Points covered this article and highlights that the current expectation is to simply say "we're better than trump". I don't think this is very effective and believe that only an economic message can sway voters.

Yeah snuffing out collective bargaining broke any chance of me voting dem.

I can see the legions of trolls who want to suppress Democratic voter turnout have found their way to Lemmy.

The 2024 election is literally an election to preserve democracy in America (however flawed) by voting Democratic Party straight ticket, or giving our country over to evil, bigotry, antisemitism, and more, by voting for any Republican or not voting (because an unvoted ballot is a lost opportunity to vote against Republican evil).

Yeah, if we can get past this spasm of darkness that has enveloped the modern Republican Party, and either replace that party or rebuild it, then we can start voting against Democrats when they fall short on important policy issues. The time for that is not when the alternative to Democratic rule is autocracy.

I'll still be here for Dems you silly goose.

Black Democratic voters in 2020:

"On the one hand we have Bernie Sanders, who literally got arrested at sit-in fighting for Black people's civil rights. He's been out front on our side of essentially every political issue for his entire career.

"On the other hand we have Joe Biden who has a problematic history of voting on the wrong side of civil rights during the bussing controversy, and has eventually evolved into a follower, rather than a leader on civil rights issues.

"Ah what the hell, let's give it to Biden!"

Black Democratic voters now:

"Well, our choice is between Biden, who is doing ... Okay. Or Trump, who is famously a bigot, who practiced segregation in his own apartment buildings, and who has a history of soft acceptance of literal neo-nazis.

"... I guess we should just sit this one out."