Democrats have been blindly voting Democrat or the past 50 years. It was Lyndon Baines Johnson who famously said we’ll have those n-ggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years. But after the epic failure that has been Obama, the first black president, blacks are starting to realize that Democrats don’t have their back. Instead, they are used to gin up racial animosity and campaign props. As you’ve seen during this election cycle, Democrats in North Carolina and Georgia have been sending out race baiting ads to try and shame blacks into voting Democrat tomorrow. Blacks may have finally had enough of being used.
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This midterm election could be the first real test for Democrats as they prepare for the post-Obama era. Andra Gillespie said she “would not make assumptions about higher black turnout in this election. Midterm electorates have higher white turnout in general. Republicans have the enthusiasm advantage [this election.]” But the same was supposed to be true back in 1998 when Democrats stunned just about every political expert with unexpected midterm wins coming in the midst of President Clinton’s impeachment drama. It would not have been possible without higher than expected black voter turnout in key races.
Gillespie explained that data from a new report from the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies indicates that black voters could prove equally decisive in key races this year – particularly in those races in which a third party candidate is running. But in 1998 black voters were particularly loyal to a specific president, who had been nicknamed “the first black president.” The enthusiasm for Bill Clinton was not transferred to the candidates that immediately followed, and the Democratic Party subsequently struggled to re-engage black voters in the ensuing years. But even if black voter turnout surpasses expectations Tuesday, the question will not be if Democrats can keep them engaged in the years to come, but keep them at all.