Early voting brings one million Black voters to Georgia polls

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gunsmoke

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Early voting brings one million Black voters to Georgia polls
ATLANTA (Reuters) - As Georgia wrapped up weeks of early voting on Friday for the Nov. 3 election, Black voter turnout had far surpassed the level seen at the same time in 2016.

Some 1 million Black voters have already cast ballots this year, up from 712,000 this time four years ago, according to TargetSmart, a Democratic analytics firm.

It is part of a rush to the polls in Georgia. More than 3.8 million Georgians had already cast ballots as of 5 p.m. on Friday, compared to 4.1 million overall in the last presidential election.
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From the poll line: How Black voters in Georgia could make the difference this election
 
GURPS

GURPS

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Report: Biden Aides Worried About Low Turnout Among Blacks And Latinos In Early Voting

Verrrrry concerning for Team Joe, although I’ll remind you up front of the big twist of this election: Each candidate is underperforming with their traditional base. Biden’s doing a little worse than Hillary among black voters and conspicuously worse among Latinos in various surveys. But he still leads in nearly every battleground because he’s making up for those lost votes by taking a bigger chunk out of Trump’s white base. That’s the whole story of the CES mega-poll I posted earlier this afternoon.

Having said that, obviously there’s a limit to how much black and Latino support Biden can afford to shed before he can’t make up the difference by taking votes from Trump. And if those two groups tank for him in Florida and Pennsylvania especially, suddenly we have an election whose result is in doubt.

It would be a fitting conclusion to a year as weird as 2020 if the president got a second term because minorities turned out to be Trumpier than everyone thought.
Despite record early-vote turnout around the country, there are warning signs for Biden. In Arizona, two-thirds of Latino registered voters have not yet cast a ballot. In Florida, half of Latino and Black registered voters have not yet voted but more than half of White voters have cast ballots, according to data from Catalist, a Democratic data firm. In Pennsylvania, nearly 75% of registered Black voters have not yet voted, the data shows.
The firm’s analysis of early vote numbers also show a surge of non-college educated White voters, who largely back President Donald Trump, compared to voters of color, who overwhelmingly support Biden.
The situation is particularly stark in Florida where Republicans currently have a 9.4% turnout advantage in Miami-Dade County, a place where analysts say Biden will need a significant margin of victory to carry the state.
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Monello

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You do know that Georgia has the 4th highest black population of all the states?
 
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