Black Voters Save Democratic Candidates Time and Time Again

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Black Women Voters Save Democratic Candidates Time and Time Again

Black women are getting the job done, but getting none of the credit.

It’s curious, though fairly predictable, that most postmortems of the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races seem to gloss over the fact that Democrats lost the white vote. More specifically, Democrats lost white women, the same demographic of so-called values voters*whose majority support for Donald Trump proved collectively that its most cherished value is white supremacy.

Fifty-one percent of white women and 63 percent of white men cast their ballots for Virginia’s Ed Gillespie, the most Trumpian local choice, whose main campaign strategy was immigration fear-mongering and praising slaveholding Confederates. In New Jersey, 50 percent of white men and 55 percent of white women voted for Kim Guadagno, the former lieutenant governor to Chris Christie who promised to ban sanctuary cities. People of color overwhelmingly rejected both candidates, but no group did so more decidedly than black women, who gave*Ralph Northam and Phil Murphy more than 90 percent of their votes. Coverage of the election almost consistently credited “women,” without using any modifiers, for pushing Dems over the top, but that’s far too generous. Once again, black women got to the polls, got the job done, yet got almost no recognition or credit.

It was déjà vu all over again, as the saying goes. On election day 2016, 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, not because they were monolithically #WithHer, but to keep the unqualified, lying, racist, self-described pussy grabber out of the White House. (#GirlIGuessImWithHer was an expression of black women’s justifiable discomfort with Clinton.)*

In 2008, 2012 and again in 2016, African-American women had the highest voter participation rate of any demographic in the country, and black turnout soared on Tuesday. Black women’s crucial role in getting Northam and Murphy elected wasn’t some kind of fluke, it was par for the political course. While politically diverse, black women’s intersecting marginalized identities also mean they often prioritize racial and social justice, civil rights and protecting the social safety net. The result is that, collectively, black women vote for left-leaning and progressive candidates more consistently than any other demographic cohort, including other groups of color and black men.

According to the rules of voting, numbers and reliability, all this should make black women the undisputed and highly prized core of the Democratic base. The party would be smart to dedicate itself to energizing and engaging black women who didn’t vote in 2016, and focusing its attention on issues black women care about ahead of 2018 and 2020. But, nah. Instead, the fractious left, which finds so much else to quarrel about, has agreed to chase voters it will never win over. “We have got to take on Trump’s attacks...against Latinos and blacks...we’ve got to fight back every day on those issues,” Bernie Sanders stated perfunctorily during a recent interview, before moving on to the people whose feelings really matter. “But equally important, or more important: We have got to focus on bread-and-butter issues that mean so much to ordinary Americans.”



continued at https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-p...ave-democratic-candidates-time-and-time-again
 
Im telling you all the democratic party has to do is stop the republicans from cheating in elections and they will never win again


how many years have I been saying this?
 
Im telling you all the democratic party has to do is stop the republicans from cheating in elections and they will never win again


how many years have I been saying this?

You've been repeating this distortion for years....about 10 I'd say....
The RNC was ordered to stop verifying voter registrations.....we all know that.....
Personally, I'd say verifying all registrations is the duty of the government.....
 
the court records dont agree with you asshole


your party was caught time after time even WHILE they are on a court ordered Decree to strop and check with the courts


they then cheated the courts by doing it without telling them
 
Im telling you all the democratic party has to do is stop the republicans from cheating in elections and they will never win again


how many years have I been saying this?

Almost every sentient, informed human knows the real reason for Republican voter disenfranchisement efforts is to make it more difficult, to make it more of a hassle for people of color and poor people to vote. There is nothing innocent about it. It is to suppress to votes of certain socio-economic groups.

And the ones that can't admit that is exactly what is happening? They are willfully lying.
 
Its why they bastardized the DOJ under Bush


Its why they invented ID laws


its why they gerrymandered



they are the racist party that thinks black should not vote
 
They are high welfare users with single parent homes so it is understandable. The gobblement has replaced the father in too many negro homes. Sad really.


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Its why they destroyed ACCORN
Good old ACORN....remember them well

[h=3]2009[/h]
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Latoya Lewis pled guilty on October 12, 2009 on charges of voter registration fraud. Lewis, who was working for ACORN when she committed the acts in 2008 that led to her guilty plea, said she was trying to "meet her quota as a paid registrar."[4]
[h=3]2008[/h]
  • In Orange County, Florida, ACORN staffers submitted multiple, duplicate registrations on behalf of six separate voters over this summer. One individual had 21 duplicate applications. Election Supervisor Bill Cowles and his staff protested, noting in a June memo that ACORN had been submitting sloppy forms as well.[5]


  • In Lake County, Indiana, election officials discovered "dozens of ACORN-delivered registration forms they believe contain inaccurate voter information, including one in which a dead man from Gary was listed as the applicant." The applications were not processed.[7]

  • In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sean Cairncross, the Republican Party's chief lawyer said that ACORN is "engaged in systematic fraud and attempts to undermine our electoral system." This was in the wake of a report that had hired at least seven felons as voter registration workers in the city. As of early October, Milwaukee election officials have referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office 49 cases of people who submitted potentially fraudulent registration cards.[8]

  • An ACORN employee in West Reading, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.[9]
[h=3]2007[/h]
  • In Washington, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time.[10] ACORN agreed to pay King County $25,000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again. According to King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, the misconduct was done "as an easy way to get paid [by ACORN], not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections."[11][12]

  • In Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Claudel Gilbert was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. He pled guilty to the illegal voting charges, his lawyer claiming voter confusion rather than criminal intent. The charges of false registration were dropped by the Franklin County prosecutor's office. Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye sentenced Gilbert to probation for one year and fined him $500 but suspended a six-month prison sentence[13]

  • In Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
[h=3]2006[/h]
  • On November 1, 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Missouri for voter registration fraud. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.[14] ACORN said in a press release that it is in part responsible in these individuals being caught, fired them, and cooperated and publicly supported efforts to look into the validity of the allegations.[15]

  • ACORN was investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, Missouri. 1,492 fraudulent voter registrations were identified.[16][17]

  • The Richland County (South Carolina) Voter Registration Office in October 2006 heard from a person who had received a new voter registration card without applying for it. On investigation, the office discovered the application had been turned in by an ACORNworker. The State Law Enforcement Division investigated the situation. They discovered that ACORN had recruited four Benedict College students to register new voters. The group's political advisor found some had questionable entries, eventually firing all four workers. Two of the students were charged with election law violations for false swearing in applying for registration. In 2009, the case was settled and no penalties that may have been assessed against the students, who were minors at the time of the irregularities, were announced in public.[18]
[h=3]2005[/h]
  • In Colorado in January 2005, two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.[19] ACORN's regional director said, "we find it abhorrent and do everything we can to prevent it from happening."[20]

  • In Virginia, the State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law. In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
[h=3]2004[/h]
  • In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.[21]

  • In Texas, ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

  • In Pennsylvania, the director of elections in Reading reported receiving calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

  • In Michigan, The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.

  • In Florida, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
  • https://ballotpedia.org/ACORN_and_voter_registration_fraud
 
They are high welfare users with single parent homes so it is understandable.

I thought this topic might bring out the unrepentant racism of the rightwing.....and I was not to be disappointed!

You know what dog whistle Ronnie Raygun was sending to rightwingers like you with his "welfare queen" blather. Yep, you got it. He was signaling to rednecks like you that blacks are shiftless, lazy, lay-a-bouts who are a drain the wallets of the good neo-confederates of our nation.
 
They are high welfare users with single parent homes so it is understandable. The gobblement has replaced the father in too many negro homes. Sad really.


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insane fucking racist sociopath



go say that at your church and see how people react
 
oh really


Obama turned out many black voters who had never voted before.


black people now know the power of voting unlike ever before



the more Americans that vote the less republicans get elected.


SO REPUBLICANS cheat certain voters out of their vote to win



its the ONLY way they can win anymore
 
Almost every sentient, informed human

That leaves you out then; you're nothing more than a low information loser on steroids who gulps the DNC Kool-Aid no matter how much they are exposed as being corrupt liars.

knows the real reason for Republican voter disenfranchisement efforts is to make it more difficult, to make it more of a hassle for people of color and poor people to vote. There is nothing innocent about it. It is to suppress to votes of certain socio-economic groups.

And the ones that can't admit that is exactly what is happening? They are willfully lying.

I am amused by the moronic and painfully stupid argument that verifying someone is legally permitted to vote is somehow disenfranchisement. But this comes from the same low information dullards who work overtime trying to disenfranchise half the voters in the USA over Trump.

You idiots really are THAT stupid AND repugnant.
 
Whatsa matter evince....no comment on Acorn...?

Good old ACORN....remember them well

2009


  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Latoya Lewis pled guilty on October 12, 2009 on charges of voter registration fraud. Lewis, who was working for ACORN when she committed the acts in 2008 that led to her guilty plea, said she was trying to "meet her quota as a paid registrar."[4]

2008


  • In Orange County, Florida, ACORN staffers submitted multiple, duplicate registrations on behalf of six separate voters over this summer. One individual had 21 duplicate applications. Election Supervisor Bill Cowles and his staff protested, noting in a June memo that ACORN had been submitting sloppy forms as well.[5]






  • In Lake County, Indiana, election officials discovered "dozens of ACORN-delivered registration forms they believe contain inaccurate voter information, including one in which a dead man from Gary was listed as the applicant." The applications were not processed.[7]



  • In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sean Cairncross, the Republican Party's chief lawyer said that ACORN is "engaged in systematic fraud and attempts to undermine our electoral system." This was in the wake of a report that had hired at least seven felons as voter registration workers in the city. As of early October, Milwaukee election officials have referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office 49 cases of people who submitted potentially fraudulent registration cards.[8]



  • An ACORN employee in West Reading, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.[9]

2007


  • In Washington, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time.[10] ACORN agreed to pay King County $25,000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again. According to King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, the misconduct was done "as an easy way to get paid [by ACORN], not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections."[11][12]



  • In Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Claudel Gilbert was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties. He pled guilty to the illegal voting charges, his lawyer claiming voter confusion rather than criminal intent. The charges of false registration were dropped by the Franklin County prosecutor's office. Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye sentenced Gilbert to probation for one year and fined him $500 but suspended a six-month prison sentence[13]



  • In Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.

2006


  • On November 1, 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Missouri for voter registration fraud. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.[14] ACORN said in a press release that it is in part responsible in these individuals being caught, fired them, and cooperated and publicly supported efforts to look into the validity of the allegations.[15]



  • ACORN was investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, Missouri. 1,492 fraudulent voter registrations were identified.[16][17]



  • The Richland County (South Carolina) Voter Registration Office in October 2006 heard from a person who had received a new voter registration card without applying for it. On investigation, the office discovered the application had been turned in by an ACORNworker. The State Law Enforcement Division investigated the situation. They discovered that ACORN had recruited four Benedict College students to register new voters. The group's political advisor found some had questionable entries, eventually firing all four workers. Two of the students were charged with election law violations for false swearing in applying for registration. In 2009, the case was settled and no penalties that may have been assessed against the students, who were minors at the time of the irregularities, were announced in public.[18]

2005


  • In Colorado in January 2005, two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.[19] ACORN's regional director said, "we find it abhorrent and do everything we can to prevent it from happening."[20]



  • In Virginia, the State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law. In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

2004


  • In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.[21]



  • In Texas, ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.



  • In Pennsylvania, the director of elections in Reading reported receiving calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.



  • In Michigan, The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.



  • In Florida, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
  • https://ballotpedia.org/ACORN_and_voter_registration_fraud
 
They are high welfare users with single parent homes so it is understandable. The gobblement has replaced the father in too many negro homes. Sad really.

I thought this topic might bring out the unrepentant racism of the rightwing.....and I was not to be disappointed!

How was the above racist? It is factual and illustrates the greatest problem for the black community who is being kept on urban plantations in Democratic Party of the Jackass cities by dependency.

You know what dog whistle Ronnie Raygun was sending to rightwingers like you with his "welfare queen" blather. Yep, you got it. He was signaling to rednecks like you that blacks are shiftless, lazy, lay-a-bouts who are a drain the wallets of the good neo-confederates of our nation.

Another stupid fact-less argument from the loony leftist liars. You're quite full of them. But we know your dog whistle is .....

:dasracist:
 
They are high welfare users with single parent homes so it is understandable. The gobblement has replaced the father in too many negro homes. Sad really.


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sorry but in the age of google racist crap like yours is just too easy to debunk. half of all blacks are middle class or better, nearly the same as whites. you just keep confirming the uneducated thing.
 
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