AL-SEN: Let's stop peddling stories about African American interest until people vote

[RandySF]

NOTE: There were stories from both Virginia and Alabama about the Democrat doing nothing to reach out to African American voters. Both were untrue.


Democrats struggled for years, under President Barack Obama, to turn out African-American voters in off-year elections. For Mr. Jones, robust black turnout was essential to victory. He poured resources into African-American outreach and even summoned political leaders from out of state, including Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor, to help in the race’s final days.

Black voters turned out in force, handing Mr. Jones a decisive lead in Alabama’s cities and predominantly black rural counties. In Jefferson County, home to Birmingham and its whiter suburbs, turnout exceeded the 2014 governor’s race by about 30 percent, and Mr. Jones nearly matched Hillary Clinton’s vote total there. Other populous, heavily African-American counties, including Montgomery and Dallas County, where Selma is, also exceeded their 2014 turnout.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/doug-jones-democrats-alabama.html?_r=0

[lame54]

1. I hope it pays off for them

[SunSeeker]

2. Once again, African American women show they are the most loyal Democratic voters. nt

[delisen]

4. The Base.

[GaryCnf]

3. With all due respect

This is incorrect. What's more, it's an excuse not to do EXACTLY what Doug did, albeit at the last minute, in Alabama in future elections.

I've been back and forth to Alabama for well over a month and if the election had been held back when we were replicating our disastrous "values" (and little else) campaign from 2016, we would have LOST because he wasn't going to get anywhere close to the turnout we needed (just like we didn't get anywhere close to the turnout we needed in places like Wayne County, Michigan in 2016). When I came back last weekend, AFTER the Jones campaign reached out to the black community in a very public and decisive way, everything had changed. Everyone I talked to was not just excited about Jones, they were excited because Moore's racism was getting a spot on the stage alongside of his reprehensible sexual predation.

Doug's campaign listened to those of us who told him that he needed to talk to us and it responded. What we saw over the last 10 days of the campaign was him listening to the TRUTH, and NOT buying the "all's good between blacks and the Democratic Party, no changes needed . . . it's just concern trolls trying to divide us" garbage that proponents of the status quo are selling. He listened to us and he, and to it's credit the party, responded in a big way.

Doug Jones gave us a blueprint for change, not an endorsement for business as usual.

[delisen]

5. Pet Theory?

[GaryCnf]

6. Do you mean

Kinda like acting like issues related to gender are the (or even "a" ) major factor in the voting patterns of black women instead of admitting that the major factor causing BLACK voters (male AND female) to vote Democratic are issues related to our race AND that our party better darn well pay attention to those issue if we expect to win?