“In 2008, for the first time in our history, African Americans voted at the same rate as white voters. We spent the next four years hearing that that high turnout was a fluke. “Experts” told us we would lose our enthusiasm. We’d be daunted by new voting laws. We’d want to protest marriage equality. We’d think our votes don’t count.
Those “experts” were wrong. African Americans turned out to vote in record numbers on Election Day, many of us waiting in long lines and going through plenty of red tape to do so.”
Read the entire article here: http://flaglerlive.com/47602/black-turnout/
Watch Dick Morris' explanation (about 1 min 45 sec in the video) on how demographics have changed...Oh and Jon Stewart's take on Morris is comical as well...
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It seems that many of the conservative responses to why the President won this election was not that people voted, but that now their vote matters because demographics have permanently changed?
What do you think?
I personally spoke with several young African-Americans who were eligible to vote for the first time and and voted and realized how their vote mattered. The fact is, people gave their lives for the right to vote for all Americans and it would be foolish to waste it. Now if we can extend this imperative to vote to the interim elections as well.
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