Only 1 Percent Of Black Voters Support Donald Trump

[Cali_Democrat]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON ― Rounding out one of the worst weeks in his presidential campaign, Donald Trump faces yet another sad reality. According to new NBC/Wall Street Journal polling released Thursday, only 1 percent of black voters nationally support the Republican nominee.

This is the lowest level of support ever recorded among the demographic, indicating that a sentiment already present among black voters in swing states is widespread. Trump also suffers among Hispanic voters, garnering just 26 percent of their vote, according to an Economist/YouGov poll released earlier this week.

Generating support among voters of color ― whom Trump’s rhetoric habitually alienates ― is key to winning the general election. People of color constitute nearly one-third of eligible voters, making the 2016 electorate the most diverse in U.S. history. This renders it essential for Trump to secure higher numbers of those votes in order to win. President Barack Obama won 93 percent of the black vote and 71 percent of the Hispanic vote nationally in 2012; in 2008, he won over 95 and 67 percent, respectively. The most recent Republican president, George W. Bush, won over 11 percent of African-Americans and 44 percent of Hispanics support in 2004; in 2000 he won 9 and 35 percent, respectively.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-voters-trump_us_57a4a2a1e4b021fd98784a42

[Chicago1980]

1. That's 1% too many.

[christx30]

3. They were probably half asleep when the question was asked.

Probably thought the question was "Do you support Trump being shot into the sun?" I can understand a 'Yes' answer there.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

4. I agree

How many "Ben Carson" types can there be?

But 26% of Hispanic voters supporting drumpf? That's just mind blowing to me.

[ailsagirl]

8. I was going to say...

That many??

[treestar]

30. 44% supported Dubya!

Mind blowing also.

[bulloney]

23. It's people like Ben Carson, Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas

You could probably round up enough of people who think like them and come up with about 1%.

[Chicago1980]

35. Uncle Tom Ruckus

[wildeyed]

33. 3.5% margin of error.

Trump's support in the AA community might be as low as -2.5%.

[louis-t]

2. And that's with a 3% margin of error!

[NurseJackie]

9. LOL! Could be more, could be even LESS!!

[MrScorpio]

5. And that's with less than your margin for error, right there. nt

[packman]

6. So that means he possibly is polling in -2 percent

Of course, math wasn't my strong subject.

[GulfCoast66]

7. Which proves

99% of black voters are smarter than 40% of white voters!

[Ellen Forradalom]

18. I'd be laughing

if it weren't so awful

[wildeyed]

34. In all seriousness, I figured that out in 2008.

Black voters did not support GWB, but a majority of white voters did.

[ZombieHorde]

10. It's got to be tough to be a black Trump supporter. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. I haven't Omarosa or Don King in days!

[bulloney]

24. It's lonelier than being a Maytag repairman.

[ZombieHorde]

25. Ha!

There's an old reference.

[marble falls]

11. Only? More "that many?".

[rocktivity]

12. So he's facing the same problem as Mitt "R-Money" Romney did

There aren't enough angry white older males to put him over.

Which makes it important for Hillary to peel off as many white moderate and independent males as possible. She'd be foolish to think she can back in on the female and minority vote alone.


rocktivity

[rurallib]

13. We could probably almost name them - Tim Scott, Ben Carson, Alan Keyes, Herman Cain

Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, The Milwaukee county sheriff -- oops brain went dry -

sure you guys know some more.

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Alan Keyes

[klook]

21. Not so sure Michael Steele will continue on this death march.

If he publicly bails, that would be pretty amazing.

For the "still on board the Titanic" list, though -- Mike Tyson. Clarence Thomas, too, I imagine.

[rurallib]

22. anybody wake Thomas up to ask him?

[klook]

29. LOL

He would have to consult Scalia with his Ouija board to find out what to say!

[Cartoonist]

31. Denzel Washington?

I read that somewhere

[rurallib]

32. Snopes says no

http://www.snopes.com/denzel-washington-switches-trump/

but I had forgotten that Charles Evers, brother of Medgar Evers, had endorsed Trump last March.

[Lulu KC]

15. Thank you ALL for the comic relief!

I thought I was coming to this site to be educated, but I really appreciate the wit.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. THANK YOU, black people!

You just might save the planet from nuclear annihilation!

[brooklynite]

17. Factor in the margin of error and it could be -5...

[cannabis_flower]

20. I wonder how he polls among

Muslims?

[bravenak]

26. We need to hold an intervention for that one percent

[yurbud]

27. He beat Bush's post-Katrina black numbers?

that's impressive.

[Thinkingabout]

28. It is going to be the 99% who kicks his butt in November. GOTV

[brush]

36. Dems, listen up. AAs are like the canary in the mine. We know what time it is.