Black turnout key to House fight
Source: The Hill
By Mike Lillis - 10/27/16 02:05 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton is not the only Democrat scrambling to rally black voters to the polls next month to temper the drop-off widely expected from a presidential election without Barack Obama on the ballot.
House Democrats are also hurtling to energize African-American voters, who compose a meaningful bloc in a number of battleground districts and could prove the deciding factor in races spanning from Florida to California.
Districts where the black vote is most significant tend to be urban seats that are safely Democratic — including those held by Reps. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) in Memphis, where 64 percent of voters are African-American, and John Lewis (D-Ga.) in Atlanta, where the figure is 60 percent. But there are also a number of House battleground districts where the black vote exceeds or approaches double digits — districts where African-American turnout could prove vital.
“It's in those smaller metropolitan areas where Democrats are locked in tight races and where there is a moderately strong African American presence where their turnout might be decisive,” said Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University.
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