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Romes187 posted...

Yeah percentages can be disingenuous here I feel.

If 100 black people vote, and you have a 96% D vote that's 96

But if 10000 black people vote...

that is why the share of the vote that tehy are is relevant

it is basically unchanged from previous elections

Darkman124 posted...

eston posted...

Percentage-wise this makes sense, but my understanding was that a higher overall number of black voters showed up than usual despite the GOP actively working against them having the ability to do so

that was my understanding on 538 also

i am confused as to how only 30% of the electorate was black since that's the state population

i had thought more of them showed up

Well, the main difference is that white voter turnout was down slightly -- the black vote was up only slightly from 2012 and not at all from 2008

black voter turnout is pretty good when you control for stuff like SES; white people vote at around the same numbers, but you'd expect it to be a lot more based on that

edit -- to be clear, other minorities make up the difference here in voteshare, if anyone is wondering how black voteshare can stay the same and white voteshare can go down
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