Romney makes a push for black voters
Romney makes a push for black voters
- July 10, 2012
- Katherine Tate, political science professor, is featured in the New York Times and Seattle Times July 10, 2012
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From the LA Times:
While blacks are expected to solidly back Mr. Obama again this year, he faces challenges
in generating the same enthusiasm as in 2008. The level of black turnout could be
especially crucial in states like North Carolina and Virginia, where black voters
had an outsize influence in the president's relatively narrow victories four years
ago.... One factor in the president's favor may be that as a result of his success
and that of other black politicians, the size of the minority electorate has grown,
said Katherine Tate, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
"Black voters are regularly participating in politics nowadays because of their elected
numbers in government," she said. "An African-American member of Congress once said
that because of Obama his mother now watches cable news regularly and talks to him
regularly and heatedly about policy matters."
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/us/politics/romney-courts-black-vote-a....
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