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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Wed Dec 13, 2017, 03:59 PM Dec 2017

98 percent of black women and 93 percent of black men voted for Democratic Senator-elect Doug Jones

98 percent of black women and 93 percent of black men voted for Democratic Senator-elect Doug Jones yesterday in Alabama, a state where black people make up a quarter of the population. Black voters made up 28 percent of the electorate on Tuesday, a turnout that hasn’t been seen since President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. Since those numbers started to trickle in late last night and early this morning, one thing became clear: black voters saved America from Roy Moore.