A surge in early and mail voting and other measures taken by Georgia's Republican secretary of state prevented a repeat on Election Day.
In Georgia during the primary season, many voters, particularly Black voters, waited eight hours or more to participate. In the weeks before the election, about 63 percent of Black voters and 73 percent of white voters told Pew Research Center pollsters that they were "extremely motivated to vote in the General Election." About 54 percent of Latino and Asian voters said the same.
Don't ask me why Black voter turnout is consistently low when nothing could be further than the clear and obvious truth." When the interview ended, Brown turned to say: "She wasn't ready for that. The fact that we have matched and topped white voter participation and done that while going through voter suppression in new and old forms every year, we are extraordinary. Eduardo Munoz / Reutersīrown said: "The fact that we have caught up with white voters, white women in particular, who have historically reaped all the benefits of voting and even any slight level of political engagement, who can't get pollsters and parties to stop targeting them, to me says that we are extraordinary. People march and celebrate after Joe Biden was projected to have won the presidential election Saturday. Biden - who would not have been the Democratic presidential nominee without Black voters in South Carolina - reached 270 Electoral College votes in large part because of Black voters in these cities. In fact, once the vote counts from Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta started to near completion, Trump's lead in their respective states disappeared.
The Black people who make up 39 percent or more of the population in those areas chose Biden, with some exceptions. Instead, it was decided in racially diverse urban centers and increasingly diverse suburbs in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. After a Google Hangout with the field directors they had hired to register, engage and boost voter participation around the country, Brown sequestered herself in a bedroom, resting her body in a hotel chair, her tired feet - by then stripped to the socks - on the bed.īetween bites of food and watching election returns turn bits of the national map red or blue, Brown juggled calls, internet video sessions and texts, in each countering the conventional wisdom with journalists, political operatives and others that the election would come down to Donald Trump's mythical all-white suburbs filled with stay-at-home moms or Joe Biden's ability to convert them.
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