Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted March 17, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 17, 2018 When Koya Graham turned 18, the first thing she did was register to vote. And, year after year, the Cleveland native faithfully voted for Democrats — that is, until the 2016 presidential election. "I'm not interested anymore," Graham told NPR in the Spring of 2016. "I don't see any immediate, significant changes happening." And Graham was not alone. It's been estimated that millions of people who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 stayed home in 2016. A recent analysis in The New York Times puts the exact figure at 4.4 million — and approximates that an outsized number of those non-voters (36 percent) were black Black voter turnout fell seven percentage points in the last election, plummeting from 66.6 percent in 2012 to 59.6 percent in 2016, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Many analysts say a natural drop-off was expected in the post-Barack Obama era. But the 2016 voter turnout for African-Americans was not just lower than the Obama years, it was even slightly lower than the 2004 election between George W. Bush and John Kerry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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