Black voters continue to be loyal to Democrats, but there are signs that support continues to erode.

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A Fox News poll earlier this month found Biden leading Trump in a hypothetical rematch among Black voters by a roughly three-to-one margin, 74 percent to 26 percent. That may seem high, but it’s down sharply from 2020, when Biden won 90 percent of Black voters, according to Democratic data firm Catalist.

Pretty stupid of that 16% to flip and support the greater evil. Republicans are trying to outlaw teaching that racism still exists, they are putting in their textbooks that slavery, “taught slaves many valuable skills,” and are constantly implementing racist policies and campaigning with racist dog whistles. Democrats are the only viable way to defeat them, at least until we can implement RCV.

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Well depending on how they count was there a flip or are the ratios different since certain amount of people have moved to the “not likely voter” category. So instead of flip, there is apathy among democratic voters.

Since they say among black voters, not among black population. Those are two different things and it matters which is it. All voting eligible persons, regardless of likelihood to vote, or just likely voters.

Since voter/not voter is not a fixed grouping, there is constant movement over that line.

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Exactly this, very few people are switching to republican. They’re just sick of the Democrats doing very little they care about. So they aren’t going to vote. The Democrats seem to of abandoned any real platform and are just running on not being psychopaths who want to destroy the government. It’s not exactly compelling.

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There’s a difference between saying Democrats should and could do more. And saying they’ve done nothing. People hate to talk about it. But under Biden some massive accomplishments have happened like the recent NLRB ruling. Something not on par with, but close to the ball park of passing civil rights. And it isn’t isolated. They’ve done a lot within the system to help a lot of people.

When it comes to loudly pretending to have accomplished things. You can’t get Republicans to shut up. When it comes to talking about things they’ve actually accomplished. Democrats stay quiet. It’s a problem.

That’s not to say that they are perfect, or wonderful, or free of issues. There’s plenty of issues. They’ve done little to nothing to address the slavery problem in the United States. And despite passing and strengthening a few safety net programs, they’ve realistically done very little to improve at a baseline, the life of the average American. Something that most of us are sorely in need of. Quite the opposite and they’ve actually done just as much or more to help out the people who are part of the problem. But to say that they’ve done nothing , or at least nothing good is very disingenuous.

Disheartening and driving ourselves away from the process as f***** up as it may be, is the surefire way of not changing it.

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You thinking they’re stupid doesn’t make them so. Your attitude has been the general attitude of the Democratic party. That being, “The other party doesn’t like you so vote for us you idiots.” That’s a pretty awful way to keep people wanting to vote for your party.

Like it or not that’s how things work with first-past-the-post general elections. If one does not vote for the most viable opponent they are supporting the greater evil. Staying home or voting third party helps Republicans, who are explicitly racist by word and deed.

There’s also the fact that the Democratic party assumes the only think black people care about is their blackness. Because of this, they ignore the fact that a huge part of the black population has values that more closely align with the Republican party. The Democratic Party has taken this voting bloc for granted for years thinking that calling the Republican party racist will be enough and they can then ignore all the other things they care about.

That’s like suggesting Jews should support Hitler because they like his economic policy. Hogwash. Republicans certainly care about blackness. They are openly promoting white nationalist ideology like the great replacement theory, and they have been the party of racism a very long time. Study after study shows Trump was elected because he exploited racial anxieties, and you think black voters will overlook this because of… values?

Specifically, what issues are you claiming are important to black voters that are not being addressed by Democrats? I’m curious what platforms you think are more important than not having their rights revoked and their history erased.

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lol the amount of BS politicians spew and people just repeat it.

question everything

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Curious which part of their comment was BS

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