black voters
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Snoop Dogg Says He's Voting for the First Time in 2020 to Get Trump Out
West Coast rapper and internet uncle Snoop Dogg says he will be making his voice heard at the ballot box this year—for the first time in his life. During an interview with Big Boy for Real 92.3 in which the rapper is wearing a head wraps and holding a signature fat blunt, Snoop revealed that…
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Klobuchar Seeks Black Support in Race to Be Biden's Running Mate; Trump Campaign Sells 'You Ain't Black' Shirts
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is reportedly in the running to be Joe Biden’s choice for vice president candidate, is apparently now trying to shore up her credibility with the black community. According to a new story from the Washington Post, Klobuchar has spent the past few weeks scrambling to repair her image with black…
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Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election
President Trump doesn’t want people to mail in votes and he doesn’t want a Los Angeles suburb with a large black population’s votes to count. I’m starting to think that the president of the United States doesn’t want black people to vote in the upcoming election. It’s almost as if he’s a dishonest racist who…
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How Is the Coronavirus Affecting Black Voters? A New Poll Reveals Key Takeaways for 2020
The 2020 elections will forever be marked by the coronavirus, but how the pandemic will affect voter turnout—and equally as important, voter mindsets—remains to be seen. A new poll from the political action committee BlackPAC, however, provides some important insight into the pandemic’s impact on black voters in crucial swing states. Among the key takeaways:…
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Supreme Court Forces Wisconsin Voters to Choose Between Their Health and Their Ballot
Wisconsin voters face an impossible choice this Election Day: protect their health, or protect their voice at the ballot box. That difficult decision was placed at their feet this week thanks to the Supreme Court, which, in a partisan decision, ruled to toss out tens of thousands of absentee ballots cast after Tuesday. As Slate…
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To the Rescue: D-Nice, Michelle Obama Join Forces for Voter Registration 'Couch Party'
While he has yet to make his auspicious debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DJ D-Nice is a whole ass superhero. For real. Since launching his virtual block parties, dubbed “Homeschool,” on Instagram Live last week, the former Boogie Down Productions rapper has quite literally provided the soundtrack to self-quarantine and graduated into a global…
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Bernie Sanders' Path to Victory Looks Mighty Slim
DETROIT—Bernie got his ass kicked and it’s not looking any better moving forward. There really is no better way to slice or dice. it. Super Tuesday II was supposed to be the day Sanders closed his delegate gap with Joe Biden, but it only widened—in the former VP’s favor. Outside of winning North Dakota, Sanders…
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Cornel West, What You Doin'?
FLINT, Mich—Political surrogates for presidential candidates have a tough job. They have to pitch their preferred candidates’ strengths while avoiding tough questions about their weaknesses and shortcomings in a way that doesn’t excuse them. It’s an impossible mission because all politicians will fail you. They have too many people to please and someone always ends…
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Black Voters Are the Most Influential Voting Bloc in the Country. Their Generational and Regional Differences Are Worth Exploring
The immediate wake of Super Tuesday went more or less as predicted: some jubilation, some anger, and a lot of punditry on overdrive as those invested in the Democratic presidential nomination collectively recalibrated where the race now stands. Southern states turned out for former Vice President Joe Biden, pushing him to the front of the…