Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024

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Democrats are becoming increasingly concerned about a possible drop in Black voter turnout for the 2024 presidential election, according to party insiders. The worries arise from a 10% decrease in Black voter turnout in the 2022 midterms compared to 2018, a more substantial decline than any other racial or ethnic group, as per a Washington Post analysis. The decline was particularly significant among younger and male Black voters in crucial states like Georgia, where Democrats aim to mobilize Black voter support for President Biden in 2024.

The Democratic party has acknowledged the need to bolster their outreach efforts to this demographic. W. Mondale Robinson, founder of the Black Male Voter Project, highlighted the need for Democrats to refocus their attention on Black male voters, who have shown lower levels of engagement. In response, Biden's team has pledged to communicate more effectively about the benefits that the Black community has reaped under Biden's administration, according to Cedric L. Richmond, a senior advisor at the Democratic National Committee.

However, Black voter advocates have identified deep-seated issues affecting Black voter turnout. Many Black men reportedly feel detached from the political process and uninspired by both parties' policies. Terrance Woodbury, CEO of HIT Strategies, a polling firm, suggests that the Democratic party's focus on countering Trump and Republican extremism doesn't motivate younger Black men as much as arguments focused on policy benefits. Concerns are growing within the party that if they fail to address these issues, disenchanted Black voters might either abstain or, potentially, be swayed by Republican messaging on certain key issues.

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That sounds a whole lot like lesser evil bullshit. There is no lesser evil, only ever expanding, ever growing evil.

If you have to choose between two evils, and you don't choose the lesser one, then you are an absolute knobhead.

The knobs are the ones that think lesser evil exists.

Are you saying that you can't see any difference between, for example, farting in an elevator vs stabbing a mother's eyes out in front of their children? Or are you just being dishonest and contrarian?

The difference is democrats would supply the knife for a republican to stab the mother

So you're saying the act of handing a person a knife is equal to the act of stabbing someone with a knife.

I don't think you actually believe that, because it's ludicrous and illogical. I think you're just making up cute sayings in order to avoid actually addressing the subject.

This kind of dishonesty is tedious, to be frank. If this is all you're willing to contribute, then you can waste your own time.

Hurrrdurrr BoTh SidEs i am such a fucking enlightened voted

Too bad you don't understand what the enlightened part is, when the left is talking about enlightened voters we are mocking centrists. And they're too ignorant to understand that they are the punchline

One of the choices is literally a fascist dictator wannabe.

There is no third choice with a chance in Hell of winning.

What you're advocating for helps the greater evil, bud.

The greater evil is doing the same thing over and over again as things get worse while expecting different results. The current state of the GOP is directly related to Bill Clinton's Southern Strategy

bill clinton's southern strategy? umm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern\_strategy

You are very opinionated for someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

I know exactly what I'm talking about liberals not paying attention to their own party politics is the problem

can you paraphrase and explain what this means and it's relevancy here?

Bill Clinton helped start the DNC shift to the right by appealing directly to southern Dixiecrats. And the Overton window has been moving to the right since

that's not historically accurate at all. he shifted to the right as a neoliberal, but he had nothing to do with dixiecrats nor the southern strategy. that happened 3 decades before him.

Of course there are lesser evils. I'd much rather have President Nixon than President Hitler. If those were my two choices, I'd vote Nixon.

Well if we're just making shit up I would rather drink orange juice than cyanide. The problem was the duopoly is that one is cyanide the other is arsenic

Do you not understand hypothetical examples when they're presented to you? Do you have some major cognitive impairment which disallows you from comprehending them?

Those were not hypothetical examples. Here's pulling two different opposing things out of your ass