Black votes represented a key bloc in many
of the states that President Clinton won in 1996 and most
of them are again battleground states this year. They
include Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio, New
Jersey, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. More than
half of President Clinton's voters in Louisiana (52%)
were Black, as were 50 percent of his voters in Georgia
and a third in Maryland.
Noting that Black public opinion is
neither as liberal nor as uniform as observers typically
believe, author David Bositis predicts that "unless
there are some unexpected developments to significantly
move Black opinion, it appears that Gore will receive a
typical Democrat's share of the Black vote of roughly 90
percent."
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The Joint Center for Political and
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conducts research and analyses on public policy issues of
concern to African Americans and other minorities, and
promotes their involvement in the governance process.
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