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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
One other point: one of the more superficial media narratives over the weekend has been the one about "African Americans aren't turning out to vote like they did in 2012", and how Clinton should be worried about this.
And it's true: African American turnout in early voting is down.... in North Carolina. It's steady, or up, everywhere else, including in Florida--where early voting by African Americans was over 717,000, compared to 539,000 in 2012.
Combined with record Latino turnout, my guess is that when the dust settles the electorate will be somewhat less white than it was in 2012, which would be in keeping with demographic trends.
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I think a lot of that discrepancy in NC is that NC has spent 4 years limiting early voting on Sundays and closing early voting locations. I saw a stat earlier today somewhere (god only knows where at this point, I'm burned out from this election) where Sunday voting was huge for black communities, and limiting that is likely a big part of why the African American vote has been down in North Carolina.