2016 Postmortem

It isn't that it didn't make a difference. It's that everyone knew it was happening and we (and the polling people) knew those votes were gone. There is a certain irony here because I represented a group of convicted felons (representing 10's of other thousands of similarly situated poc with felony convictions) who were taken off the Florida voter rolls before the 2000 election by the Choicepoint purge, primarily on 15th Amendment grounds. I say "ironic" because I/we begged the DNC to provide financial/public relations help and they cut them loose AND when I have tried to bring up on DU how the DNC left those tens of thousands of black voters to die on the vine, all I hear is "It was Nader's fault."

Of course we got 92% of the black vote. I worked exclusively in Southern urban areas for both candidates. I didn't say we were stupid (no, that has to be reserved for Trump voters). I said that the youngish black voters I primarily talked to during GE GOTV efforts were not particularly excited about Clinton and did not turn out like they did for Obama, in part, in my opinion, because they did not believe they were needed. Now you may disagree with the why, but the numbers are what the numbers. They didn't turn out. If you have a better explanation, let's hear it.

Finally, Trump got about the same number of votes as Romney. Am I supposed to act like it was a huge shock to find out that Republicans are a pack of FIRCs? There are more of us, the fact that they are racist trash should not have made a difference.