The black voter turnout rate declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, falling to 59.6% in 2016 after reaching a record-high 66.6% in 2012. The 7-percentage-point decline from the previous presidential election is the largest on record for blacks. (It’s also the largest percentage-point decline among any racial or ethnic group since white voter turnout dropped from 70.2% in 1992 to 60.7% in 1996.) The number of black voters also declined, falling by about 765,000 to 16.4 million in 2016, representing a sharp reversal from 2012. With Barack Obama on the ballot that year, the black voter turnout rate surpassed that of whites for the first time. Among whites, the 65.3% turnout rate in 2016 represented a slight increase from 64.1% in 2012.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/
How Hillary Clinton lost
Hillary Clinton just couldn't hold onto the Obama coalition. And that proved to be a large part of her undoing.
African-American, Latino and younger voters failed to show up at the polls in sufficient numbers Tuesday to propel Clinton into the White House.
Clinton conceded the race after 2 a.m. ET. Before polls closed her campaign had been confident of victory. In the end, however, she lost even some states thought to be safely in her column, like Wisconsin. She trailed in others, like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
While she won the key demographic groups her campaign targeted, she underperformed President Obama across the board, even among women, according to exit poll data.
A slightly larger share of black and Latino voters cast ballots for Trump than supported Mitt Romney in 2012, despite Trump's disparaging remarks on African-Americans, Mexicans and undocumented immigrants.
President Barack Obama, who captured the presidency with the help of the African-American and Latino communities, issued several personal pleas to black voters to back Clinton in recent weeks.
"If we let this thing slip and I've got a situation where my last two months in office are preparing for a transition to Donald Trump, whose staff people have said that their primary agenda is to have him in the first couple of weeks sitting in the Oval Office and reverse every single thing that we've done," Obama said last week during an interview on a syndicated radio program.
But not enough African-Americans, along with Latinos, heeded the call.
Some 88% of African-American voters supported Clinton, versus 8% for Donald Trump, as of very early Wednesday morning. While that's a large margin, it's not as big as Obama's victory over Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama locked up 93% of the black vote to Romney's 7%.
Some 12% of the electorate was African-American this year, compared to 13% four years ago. That's a key drop, especially when paired with a smaller-than-expected growth in Latino votes.
This lowered turnout happened even after Trump repeatedly made sweeping comments about how black communities were in the worst shape ever. Referring multiple times to "inner cities," Trump said black people live in poverty, have no jobs and get shot walking down the street. "What do you have to lose?" he asked.
Clinton's support among Latinos was even more tenuous, despite Trump pledging to build a wall on the Mexican border, accusing undocumented immigrants of being criminal aliens and promising to deport them.
Only 65% of Latinos backed her, while 29% cast their votes for Trump. In 2012, Obama won 71% of the Hispanic vote and Romney secured 27%
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/polit...ericans-latinos-women-white-voters/index.html
Was she a bad candidate yes.... but Trump is basically a Supervillain and facts are facts.... Because we didn't show up a Supervillain is in Office. All Hail Cobra Trumpmander.
Well, its life.
Deal with it, cry about it, or die.
That may sound harsh, but those are your only options.
People rather be told fairy tales so they can feel a little better?
What else is there to do?
I don't even sorry for myself in life, bruh. Not even when I was on my deathbed in '04.
Even when we were turned out in major numbers for Barack, how much did it improve our condition?
Trump is probably the worst president in history ... and will it galvanize our collective? What will it take for black people to realize voting, alone, is not the answer?
We're fractured when Dems are in and when Dems aren't.
I don't want to hear shit about voting when black folks don't even want to work together to protect themselves from the fuckery.
That would be greater than even voting, yet we won't do that, but we be mad as fuck at people who won't vote.
I don't understand, for the life of me, how people can cling so much to shit that don't offer them the solutions they really want.
Voting for black people amounts to staying afloat and nothing more.
I ain't staying afloat. I refuse to teeter on the edge. What I can't control, I can't ... but my economic status is something I took charge of years ago.
I don't know what the fuck some of you are expecting to get out of a political system in a country that 99 percent of us can agree is Amerikkka.
I'm almost to a point of not even caring about the collective, because the collective damn sure don't care enough about itself. Why must I carry the emotional and psychological burden of a apathetic, and stagnant collective?
What are we really doing in this country collectively other than diagnosing the problems? Even on BGOL, we'll post a million fucking threads citing yet another example of CAC's being CAC's, but how many threads do we post, comparatively, about doing what we can to fix it? Whatever measures we are taking aren't even close to being good enough. We want pats on the back 'cause a minority of us are trying? Trying don't mean shit. You either figure the shit out, or deal with the consequences. That goes for black folks, or anybody in a compromised position.
People have said all I'm saying for longer than all of us have been alive, and better than any of us can say it ... and at best, we come together when some perceived leader can galvanize us. Barack was the most recent, and you would've thought that man was going to walk on water the way we were so excited.
Alright.
I'm done rambling.