Chen writes: "Women of color turned out to vote at record rates in the 2020 election, with almost nine in 10 agreeing that the stakes were too high not to vote, according to a new poll."
Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty. (photo: Maddie Schroeder/Columbus Dispatch)
New Poll Shows Women of Color Highly Motivated to Vote
02 August 21
omen of color turned out to vote at record rates in the 2020 election, with almost nine in 10 agreeing that the stakes were too high not to vote, according to a new poll.
Why it matters: The findings in the poll, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of a group of reproductive rights organizations, appear to confirm the highly-motivated voting bloc's emerging power.
- Advocates warn that the GOP's efforts to restrict voting access, including targeting vote by mail and early voting, will disproportionately impact people of color.
By the numbers: Eight in 10 women of color voted for Biden in the 2020 election, according to the poll, which surveyed and interviewed 1,617 adult women (18+) in the U.S. who self-identify as Black or African American; of Hispanic, Latina, or Spanish-speaking background; or Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI).
- The number of Latina and AAPI first-time voters jumped at least seven points since 2018, while Black women had an outsized influence in critical swing states like Georgia, Texas and Florida.
- Nearly eight in 10 women of color voters polled reported voting early, while 52% voted by mail, ballot drop box or absentee.
- But two in five women of color voters polled faced challenges while voting last year, an increase of eight points since 2018. About 19% said they were asked to show ID at the polls, 11% saw disinformation on social media and 11% faced long voting lines.
- Despite these obstacles, nine in 10 first-time voters said they were committed to voting in the next election.
Worth noting: About 57% say they will be watching their elected officials in Congress more closely compared to previous elections.
- Women of color are more likely to vote for candidates who prioritize ending discrimination, protecting reproductive rights and ensuring access to health insurance.
- About 79% want their elected officials to understand how white supremacy impacts their lives.
- "Failure to deliver on the issues that women of color voters care about comes with electoral consequences," the report states.
The big picture: Democrats have attempted to combat the GOP's attacks with federal legislation, but Senate Republicans filibustered Democrats' sweeping voter protections bill in June.
- Nine people, including Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), were arrested in D.C. on July 15 during a voting rights demonstration led by Black women.
The bottom line: Efforts to enact restrictions "hit us hard," but women of color voters "made clear this last election that they are paying attention and won't be ignored," Marcela Howell, the president and CEO of In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda, said in a statement.
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But air war is devastating against civilian targets. Bombs can take out the infrastructure needed to support life -- electricity, water, sewer, food supplies, hospitals, and so on. In Iraq, the US was very successful in bombing the entire civilian infrastructure. This is commonly called bombing a people back into the stone age or at other times back to a pre-industrial life style.
Of course, destroying the civilian infrastructure is a war crime and makes the US a worse violater of international law than ISIS because the scale of US bombing is so much greater.
But Obama and Pentagon killers don't give a shit. The real intention of their war is to destroy the conditions of life in Syria so that Assad falls. This is not a war against ISIS. That pseudo-goal will fail exactly as Scott says. But the war against Syrian civilians will be successful. After a year of Obama's bombing, a million Syrians will be dead and most Syrian cities will be rubble.
Quoting CarolynScarr:
I fail to see how you don't contradict yourself, yet you might be up to something - could you please clarify?
Also, our wars since 2001 have left each area less stable than they were before our military interventions. The first rule should be to cause no (more) harm.
There is not good reason we should continue to fight endless, unjust, unnecessary, and fiscally-irresp onsible wars.
So why the fuck does the Corpo-Military- Congressional-S enate power-complex keep requisitioning and building expensive, taxpayer-funded boondoggles like the provenly failed F-35 fighter-bomber at the expense of taking care of the needs of it's own people, education, healthcare and infrastructure in the "Homeland"?
I guess "Citizen Mike" has answered this in part but it's never as simple as it seems.
But our alleged leaders' and their patsy-pundits' wantonly ignoring history and blundering incompetence in even trying to understand the long-simmering complexities of an ancient, interconnected web of cultures is inexcusable, given the recent colonial and post-colonial interference, conquests and carving-up of that which they refuse to understand (Lawrence of Arabia notwithstanding).
I have no solution but then I'm not an "Expert" nor a rabid, plunder-happy, chickenhawk neocon warmonger.
What we have with IS is the real danger to the whole of Middle East and to the whole wide world. This is a war that must be fought jointly and with boots on the ground as this menace cannot be eradicated by air power alone. The enemy is very clever and has areas to hide and cause more civilian deaths.
This should be done sooner than later and Turkey should be an integral part of this war.
Simultaneously, Asad should be persuaded to leave or else...... as he is part of the problem.
Yes, and many of us here in the good old USofA no longer identify with our ruling government. May our number prosper and grow.
Any nation (and that includes you, dear reader) which employs as it's singular response to every international situation the commencement of bombing, is totally morally bankrupt and devoid of new ideas or empathy or true diplomatic engagement, and thus has absolutely nothing to offer as a new paradigm to uplift the Islamic masses which are attracted to the caliphate ideal. America bombed away at the trophic leadership chain in Iraq until nothing but the worst moral bankrupts were left free to try their hand at leadership. So at present we have a situation with moral degenerates on both sides of the "war" - the morally bankrupt Americans and the morally bankrupt followers of radical Islam. Both sides are using human-brain "software" that is obsolete - both those "operating systems" (OS) are past their best-before dates and both need to be upgraded. The capitalist-impe rialist-christi an OS running in American brains is obsolete, and so is the OS running in Moslem brains. I have already written a new OS that meets the demands of the real future, including a new Quran, but nobody is paying any attention - they prefer the status quo, since, if you really want to even have a future, you must take the point that Naomi Klein has finally stumbled upon, that "This Changes Everything".