Our analysis shows that while 9 percent of Obama 2012 voters went for Mr. Trump in 2016, 7 percent — that’s more than four million missing voters — stayed home.
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Black politics 2.0: The post-Obama generation is so done with the Democratic Party’s old ways | Washington Post
This is what the post-Obama era of black electoral politics looks like — and it is taking shape largely outside the daily headlines in Washington.
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As San Francisco mayor, London will share power with the poor | San Francisco Bay View
The party that jeers at the consequences of white privilege ended up forcing a vote on the Board of Supervisors that replaced an African American woman as mayor with a white man who supervises the city’s wealthiest districts.
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A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office | TIME
For years, the hardest thing about getting women elected has been getting women to decide to run.
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A Bold Sista: Move Over, Bernie Bros. Nina Turner Is the New Head of Sanders’ Our Revolution | The Root
Nina Turner is not hard to describe. She’s that other black woman on MSNBC and CNN talking about workers rights, fighting back and pushing for a progressive agenda, even during President Barack Obama’s administration.
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5 political numbers to watch – Politico
Steven Shepard on the political data that matters.
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here: Cornel West
Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future.
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Is Black Early-Voting Turnout a Cause for Concern?
The first week of returns for North Carolina show that the conflict over voter suppression rages on.
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