Surprise! Blacks seem to have voted at a higher rate than whites in last month’s election! - Akron, OH - The Suburbanite

Surprise! Blacks seem to have voted at a higher rate than whites in last month’s election!

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By Pat Cunningham

Despite concerted voter-suppression efforts by Republicans aimed at blacks and certain other elements of the Democratic coalition (see HERE), there’s good evidence that it was white folks rather than African-Americans who failed to vote last month in numbers proportional to their share of the eligible electorate.

Check out THIS REPORT from just the other day:

Blacks voted at a higher rate this year than other minority groups and for the first time in history may also have voted at a higher rate than whites, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census data, election day exit poll data ...

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