The voter turnout rate among eligible black female voters increased 5. Blacks ages 18 to 29 increased their voter turnout rate by 8. The voter turnout rate among young black eligible voters was higher than that of young eligible voters of any other racial and ethnic group in This, too, was a first Kirby and Kawashima-Ginsberg, The increased diversity of the electorate was also driven by population growth, especially among Latinos. Between and , the number of Latino eligible voters rose from In comparison, among the general population, the total number of eligible voters increased by just 4.
Registered Voter Population: Persons who say they were registered to vote in their state in the In , Latino eligible voters accounted for 9. Similarly, the share of eligible voters who were black increased from The share of eligible voters who were Asian also increased, from 3.
In contrast, the share of eligible voters who were white fell from With population growth and increased voter participation among blacks, Latinos and Asians, members of all three groups cast more votes in than in Two million more blacks and 2 million more Latinos reported voting in than said the same in Among Asians, , more votes were reported cast in than in The number of white voters in was also up, but only slightly—increasing from The Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data also finds a distinct regional pattern in the state-by-state increases in turnout.
From to , the greatest increases were in Southern states with large black eligible voter populations: Mississippi where the voter turnout rate was up 8 percentage points , Georgia 7. It also increased in the District of Columbia 6. This report summarizes the participation of voters in the presidential election and follows reports from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, on the Latino vote Lopez and Livingston, ; Lopez, ; Taylor and Fry, and Latino public opinion about the election and the candidates Lopez and Minushkin, The November Voting and Registration Supplement is one of the richest sources available of information about the characteristics of voters.
It is conducted after Election Day and relies on survey respondent self-reports of voting and voter registration. However, because it relies on post-election self-reporting by survey respondents in some 55, households, these weighted CPS estimates of turnout never match up precisely with the actual number of votes tallied in the 50 states.
Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Follow NBC News. By Mara Ostfeld and Michelle Garcia. Mara Ostfeld. Michelle Garcia. The group that saw the biggest increase in support for Trump compared to , however, was black men. The black community has long been seen as the most solidly Democratic voting bloc. This year was no different.
But although black voters tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat, they are not a monolith. In an article in the Los Angeles Times that same year, former diplomat Dave Seminara suggested this was because young black men in the US "often compete with recent immigrants for low-skilled jobs".
In their recent book Steadfast Democrats, Ismail White and Chryl Laird suggested the reason black voters have so consistently voted Democrat in the past was not because of a unified ideology, but because of "social pressure from other black voters". Organisations such as Blexit, headed up by right-wing personality Candace Owens, gained increasing prominence too. And this year, several black celebrities appeared to voice their support for Trump, including rappers Curtis Jackson aka "50 Cent" and Ice Cube - although 50 Cent later rowed back his endorsement, and Ice Cube, who had backed Trump's Platinum Plan, distanced himself from the president's actual campaign.
Black Entertainment Television BET founder Robert Johnson also voiced the frustration of black voters with the Democrats, when he told US broadcaster CNBC: "I think black Americans are getting a little bit tired of delivering huge votes for the Democrats, and seeing minimal return in terms of economic wealth and closing the wealth gap, job creation and job opportunities.
Joe Biden was not an inspiring candidate for many black Americans. Fulwood tells BBC News that although most black voters he spoke to for the Black Swing Voters Project overwhelmingly believed President Trump was "racist" and "incompetent", they also admired how he "shows strength and defies the establishment". The president seems to defy authority, he adds. So his rhetoric taps into their antipathy. They don't like him, they don't like his policies, but they like the idea that he sticks it to the establishment.
Stephanie Muravchik, author of a new book entitled Trump's Democrats, also suggests President Trump's appeal to some voters was down to his image as a "boss politician" - an old-style local bigwig who she says would be personally familiar with their town's residents. He says things like, 'never show fear, it's all about strength' - when he got Covid and then recovered, he whipped off his mask.
That may seem absurd and childish to some, but it reads differently in these communities. The Covid stimulus cheque sent to US citizens, with a letter personally signed by President Trump, was an example of so-called "boss politics" in action. Sincerely, Trump'. It was really absurd, but it was brilliant, because it was invoking that model of politician as protector. But even with all of this in mind, are the racism accusations putting off minority voters?
For Mateo Mokarzel, these claims have only strengthened his resolve to support Trump, and push back against what he calls "media bias". I don't see how that's racist or some kind of dog whistle.
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