Both Sides: Why we don't fuck with the GOP
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The “racial turnout gap” refers to the difference in the percentage of eligible white and nonwhite voters who cast a ballot in a given election. This gap is watched closely by voting rights groups and civil rights leaders as an indication of potentially harmful laws or procedures that could have suppressive effects on communities of color.
According to the group’s report, the turnout gap between Black and white voters in those former Section 5 counties has grown by 11 percentage points since the Shelby decision, between 2012 and 2022. The study relied on nearly one billion voter files to estimate that, had the decision never occurred, the white-Black turnout gap would have nevertheless grown, but by just six percentage points.
Though that difference may appear small, the study’s authors contend that such gaps are “potentially huge” in modern politics: Since 2012, at least 62 elections for Senate, governor and president in states with Section 5 counties were decided by under five percentage points.
After the Shelby decision, state legislatures across the country passed an array of new voting restrictions, including new voter ID laws, and they purged hundreds of thousands of names from voter rolls. But turnout is affected by a number of things, including the time it takes to vote and other motivational factors like close races or polarizing candidates, making for an imprecise statistic for trying to measure the effect of those laws, many argue. And the impact of the Supreme Court decision in 2013 was far wider than simply new voting laws; any number of voting procedures such as changing polling locations or cleaning voter rolls were no longer subject to federal approval.
The study identified a significant racial turnout gap nationwide, beyond the counties previously covered by Section 5. In the 2020 election, 9.3 million more people would have voted if nonwhite voters had participated at the same rate as white voters. In the 2022 midterms, that total would have been 13.9 million ballots.
The gap persisted across education and income lines. Though turnout drops across all racial and ethnic lines in lower-income communities, poorer white voters still turn out at a higher rate than their nonwhite peers, according to the study.
The widening turnout gap is a “big deal,” said Jake Grumbach, a professor of policy at the University of California, Berkeley. “Democratic institutions in the U.S. were getting healthier since 1965. And this is the first time the trend has reversed, really, in the post civil rights era. And so I think that’s the damaging point.”
It looks like virtually a whos who of coons. Somebody take roll call.
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
AI-GENERATED IMAGE
This image, created by a radio host and his team using AI, is one of dozens of fakes portraying black Trump supporters
Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.
But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump's campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a "strategic narrative" designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.
A creator of one of the images told the BBC: "I'm not claiming it's accurate."
The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
This image, created by a radio host and his team using AI, is one of dozens of fakes portraying black Trump supporters
Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.
But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump's campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a "strategic narrative" designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.
A creator of one of the images told the BBC: "I'm not claiming it's accurate."
The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.
Black leaders and athletes need to put pressure on the schools. The mayor of Birmingham started this fire last week and I commend him for. Black people do not need to go to any PWI if they going to do this bullshit
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This is big man.
But...but...but... its not for only black people
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BREAKING: White House reporter Jonathan Lemire drops a bombshell and reveals that Donald Trump's campaign team is aggressively working to hide his worsening cognitive decline from the public.
Trump's mind is rotting to pieces and he doesn't want us to know...
"He's surrounded entirely by enablers during this campaign and would be again if he'd be in the White House a second time," Lemire said during an appearance on Morning Joe. "There would be no guardrails or adults in the room, it'd be people doing what he wants."
The panel was discussing the ways in which Trump struggled, slurred, and rambled his way through campaign speeches over the weekend — making it abundantly clear that he is no longer the same man who won the White House in 2016.
"To your point, he is not the same guy," Lemire went on. "You can watch video footage of the 2016 campaign, some of his time in the White House. We played last week a clip from the debate between Trump and Biden back in 2020. It was striking even then how much Trump has changed, how he's aged. He is in his late seventies, he is only a couple years younger than President Biden. We're seeing with more and more frequency, even as the media and we talked about it earlier, how the weekend was full of polls and obsession about President Biden's age, it is this, Trump, who day after day is showing the signs of age but also pressure."
"Indeed, pressure because he is not getting as much of the share of the Republican vote as he'd like," Lemire went on. "Nikki Haley posting a win over the weekend. Pressure because of the money he now owes, nearly half a billion dollars in a couple cases in New York City, and pressure that his first criminal case, a case that could theoretically put him in prison, starts in just three weeks. "
"We are seeing it night after night on the rally stage, where he seems to even just lose control of the English language," said Lemire. "Mika cringes, I can't help it either at the end of that clip. His team knows, but they're just forging forward."
"They're trying to keep him off the stage as much as possible," chimed in host Joe Scarborough. "Obviously, they don't want that out there. They don't want him on Truth Social. Again, he only hurts himself politically."
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That shit is really getting bad. I’m pretty sure some Republicans are beginning to notice, but they keeping quiet.
She is dead right about that. Trump over the last few weeks has been talking like he has been having mini strokes.
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Sir, there is a stark difference between having strokes and getting strokes.
Oh nice and chubby babySir, there is a stark difference between having strokes and getting strokes.
