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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBlack voters in North Carolina shrug off Trump's voting day threats ("monitor your polling places")
http://www.newsweek.com/north-carolina-voters-513156(emphases my own)
North Carolinas African-American community has fought to overcome numerous barriers to voting over the past centuryfrom poll taxes and literacy tests to a 2013 voter ID law that, according to a federal appeals court ruling this summer, was designed to target African-Americans with almost surgical precision. So as the states early-voting period gets underway in the 2016 election, black voters are not about to let concerns about conflict at polling placesfanned by Donald Trumps sinister predictions of voter fraudkeep them from casting their ballot.
We dont take what Donald Trump has to say as a deterrent for us to come and vote, North Carolina Central University student Brian Burton told Newsweek on October 20, following a rally featuring Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine at the historically black university in Durham. Burton said he thinks the Republican presidential nominees talk of rampant voter fraud (which is unfounded) and exhortations to his supporters to go out and watch other communities vote are only driving more Democrats to the polls, versus actually driving them away. He said he was planning to vote the next day.
Others on campus were equally nonplussed. Im not really worried about anything, said freshman Saniya Farrow, who planned to go home to another part of the state, where she is registered, to vote over the weekend. She said warnings of vote rigging are nothing new, though she added she wasnt familiar with the concerns specific to this election.
In downtown Durham, voters didnt appear fazed by the presidential races harsh rhetoric or the rain in the next days forecast. A line snaked out the door of the Durham County Board of Elections office, one of five early-voting sites now open in the county. Another eight will begin operating on October 27 through Election Day. Volunteer poll monitors said the crowds had been pretty consistent since voting began October 20.
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Black voters in North Carolina shrug off Trump's voting day threats ("monitor your polling places") (Original Post)
Bill USA
Oct 2016
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marybourg
(12,540 posts)1. Newsweek writer confused about the word "nonplussed".
It doesn't mean not worried. It means:
surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.
"he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea"
Shame on Newsweek!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)3. second definition
NORTH AMERICAN informal
(of a person) not disconcerted; unperturbed.
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FWIW, I agree with you, but things change all the time it seems
marybourg
(12,540 posts)4. So now it means two completely opposite
conditions? Amazing!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)5. yup. Like cleave
marybourg
(12,540 posts)8. . . . and inflammable.
JustinL
(722 posts)9. and "religious freedom" n/t
Wounded Bear
(58,442 posts)6. Kind of like flammable and inflammable...