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<blockquote data-quote="TomParks2016" data-source="post: 19992" data-attributes="member: 25"><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/black-turnout-falls-in-early-voting-boding-ill-for-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/black-turnout-falls-in-early-voting-boding-ill-for-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0</a></p><p></p><p><em>The reasons for the decline appear to be both political and logistical, with lower voter enthusiasm and newly enacted impediments to voting at play. In North Carolina, where a federal appeals court </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-north-carolina-voter-id-provision.html" target="_blank"><u><em>accused Republicans of an “almost surgical” assault</em></u></a><em> on black turnout and Republican-run election boards curtailed early-voting sites, black turnout is </em><a href="http://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2016/11/as-we-enter-final-week-nc-absentee.html" target="_blank"><u><em>down 16 percent</em></u></a><em>. White turnout, however, is up 15 percent. Democrats are planning an aggressive final push, including a visit by </em><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per" target="_blank"><u><em>President Obama</em></u></a><em> to the state on Wednesday.</em></p><p></p><p><em>But in Florida, which extended early voting after long lines left some voters waiting for hours in 2012, African-Americans’ share of the electorate that has gone to the polls in person so far has </em><a href="https://electionsmith.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/exclusive-racialethnic-breakdown-of-2016-early-votes-cast-eip-vbm-in-florida-with-2012-comparisons/" target="_blank"><u><em>decreased</em></u></a><em>, to 15 percent today from 25 percent four years ago.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Yet African-Americans are underperforming their participation rates from 2012. <a href="http://people.clas.ufl.edu/dasmith/" target="_blank"><u>Daniel A. Smith</u></a>, a professor of political science at the University of Florida, compared the early voting so far in minority-heavy Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward Counties with that in 2012. He found that of those who have cast ballots this year, 22 percent were black, 40 percent were white and 31 percent were Hispanic. In 2012, the breakdown was 36 percent black, 35 percent white and 23 percent Hispanic.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>“If the Clinton campaign doesn’t ramp it up,” Professor Smith said, “Florida will be in doubt.”</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TomParks2016, post: 19992, member: 25"] [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/us/politics/black-turnout-falls-in-early-voting-boding-ill-for-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0[/URL] [I]The reasons for the decline appear to be both political and logistical, with lower voter enthusiasm and newly enacted impediments to voting at play. In North Carolina, where a federal appeals court [/I][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/federal-appeals-court-strikes-down-north-carolina-voter-id-provision.html'][U][I]accused Republicans of an “almost surgical” assault[/I][/U][/URL][I] on black turnout and Republican-run election boards curtailed early-voting sites, black turnout is [/I][URL='http://www.oldnorthstatepolitics.com/2016/11/as-we-enter-final-week-nc-absentee.html'][U][I]down 16 percent[/I][/U][/URL][I]. White turnout, however, is up 15 percent. Democrats are planning an aggressive final push, including a visit by [/I][URL='http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per'][U][I]President Obama[/I][/U][/URL][I] to the state on Wednesday.[/I] [I]But in Florida, which extended early voting after long lines left some voters waiting for hours in 2012, African-Americans’ share of the electorate that has gone to the polls in person so far has [/I][URL='https://electionsmith.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/exclusive-racialethnic-breakdown-of-2016-early-votes-cast-eip-vbm-in-florida-with-2012-comparisons/'][U][I]decreased[/I][/U][/URL][I], to 15 percent today from 25 percent four years ago. Yet African-Americans are underperforming their participation rates from 2012. [URL='http://people.clas.ufl.edu/dasmith/'][U]Daniel A. Smith[/U][/URL], a professor of political science at the University of Florida, compared the early voting so far in minority-heavy Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Broward Counties with that in 2012. He found that of those who have cast ballots this year, 22 percent were black, 40 percent were white and 31 percent were Hispanic. In 2012, the breakdown was 36 percent black, 35 percent white and 23 percent Hispanic. “If the Clinton campaign doesn’t ramp it up,” Professor Smith said, “Florida will be in doubt.”[/I] [/QUOTE]
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