If You Can Keep It: Democrats Lose Ground With Key Voting Blocs
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
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Summary
New data analysis shows that Democratic support among Black, Latino and Asian American voters is the lowest it's been in over 60 years. That's according to polling data collected by Financial Times journalist John Burn-Murdoch.
According to a recent Gallup poll, this decline has largely happened in the past few years.
We discuss what losing a portion of important voting blocs means for Democrats and their political strategy.
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| 0:29.0 | We often think that the general election is when we can make our voices heard at the ballot box. But in a lot of places, elections aren't actually that competitive, and voting in a certain party's primary |
| 0:35.3 | can matter a lot more for who ultimately represents you. That's been true for decades |
| 0:40.0 | in most of Alabama. Until now, a new congressional map drew a new district, District 2, |
| 0:46.4 | that brought out 19 candidates to choose from. That's something Alabama doesn't see often in |
| 0:51.2 | its elections, and we went down there to talk about it |
| 0:53.7 | with Alabama voters. Today we're bringing you a conversation we had in Birmingham |
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| 1:16.3 | voters have we hear that discussion taped a few days after Alabama voted in the |
| 1:20.9 | super Tuesday primaries after the break. |
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