.@Essence poll: Top presidential choices among black women

[Cha]

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

1. Good news for us Biden supporters, but I don't think Joy Reid was very happy about that poll...

Thanks for posting this, Cha! K&R

[Cha]

11. Thank you, highplainsdem!

Yeah, interesting that Joy would tweet this poll.

[Me.]

2. KR

[Cha]

24. Mahalo, Me.. just a sampling

from Essence.

[Me.]

33. I Heard On Joy This Morning

That the older ladies of color were for Biden. It's all going to change as we move along,there's over a year and I wonder how our primary will be affected now that 3 people (so far) are going to run against the traitor.

Happy Sunday Hoa

[Cha]

35. I just got back from the

beach.. I had great Sunday.. hope you did, too!

Yes, of course, it will change.. all I'm doing is going day by day.. anything can happen!

Hoaaloha!

[Me.]

43. Sounds So Nice

[Cha]

47. It was peaceful!

[wasupaloopa]

3. I can not convince myself that Kamala Harris being a woman of color will not move ahead in this

primary.

[Joe941]

9. It should be about policy not skin color and gender.

[wasupaloopa]

13. It is about all those things. Voters decide what it is about.

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. Unfortunately it is, even for many Democratic voters

I am amazed at the antagonism by Warren supporters towards Sanders supporters. When they are so close in policy. Makes no sense.

I don't have the link, but I saw a primary tracker where supporters are asked who their second and third choices were. Sander's supporters second choice was Warren. Makes sense if you care about policy over things like skin colour or gender. Warren supporter's second choice was not Sanders. He was not even their third choice. To me that seems totally whack. Shouldn't a candidates platform....how their propositions would affect you, your family, your country.....be paramount? So why wouldn't your second choice be someone who embodies the closest platform to your preferred candidate?

[comradebillyboy]

27. Maybe they just don't like Bernie very much. Lots of folks don't. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

44. But why not? If he wants the same things as you do?

None of the candidates are going to be your bestie. You won't be having them over for dinner. You don't have to live with them.
Sanders can be a grumpy looking old man who barks rather than speaking sometimes. A bit short tempered. Dishevelled, and gruff. That is not important to me if his policies line up with my own values. I didn't vote for George W Bush because he was more 'likeable" and I could have a beer with him, over Gore who seemed much less homey and stiff in front of the cameras. Maybe some did, but I though more liberal folks were smarter than that.

[comradebillyboy]

49. I want a nominee who is capable of working with others as a team.

Bernie stands aloof from the party and has never been a team player. He can't get much done all by himself. That crew of Jill Stein voters he surrounded himself with gives me no confidence in who might populate a theoretical Sanders administration.

[Chemisse]

54. Many people became mistrustful of him toward the end of the 2016 season.

When he was late in conceding and dragged his feet before supporting Clinton. It started to seem like he was being driven by his ego and didn't care about having a Democratic win.

[Cha]

36. Who says it's "about skin color", Joe?!

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ETA.. well, I don't think it's about skin color or gender.. never have.

[Celerity]

41. post 3 and post 13 nt

[LanternWaste]

46. This is troubling for Bernie.

[customerserviceguy]

55. Don't forget

electability. Trump would love to run against Sen. Harris.

[Perseus]

21. That 26% who do not want to disclose their choice, those are for Kamala Harris

Don't worry about it.

[ecstatic]

50. I think the 26% represents the "I don't care just as long as it's not trump"

vote.

[treestar]

51. Why would they not want to say so?

[blm]

4. Lots of room for Harris, Warren, Booker, Beto

And others. Everyone knows Biden and Sanders. In my predominantly black Dem group of women, Harris and Warren are running even, with Pete, Booker, and Biden a bit behind.

[FloridaBlues]

5. I didn't watch her show but sure she didn't like that poll.

Happy to see support for VP Biden.

[sheshe2]

6. K&R!

[jxla]

7. More results

What Do Black Women Want This Election Season?
https://www.essence.com/feature/black-womens-roundtable-survey-results-2019/

Full survey results
https://www.ncbcp.org/assets/2019BWRReportBlackWomenintheU.S.2019FINAL3.22.19.pdf

[brush]

8. This is about right for right now and should prevail thru the SC primary. After that on Super...

Tuesday it should change as California will be included and Harris' support should increase.

[Iliyah]

10. t-rump?

[not_the_one]

28. I saw that, yet Mayor Pete is not even given a mention...

Does that mean more blacks prefer the turd over Pete?

I believe I know the reason...

Apparently irony is still in vogue. After all, this is an Essence poll.

[Celerity]

40. Almost double the percentage

Trump 1.0%
Buttigieg 0.6%

The dual swords of my fellow POC's homophobia (especially against gay men) and then his problems with the South Bend Police Department have done him in.

Madness that more black women chose Rump than Pete.
Hopefully this is an outlier poll.

[melman]

12. @Essence poll: Top presidential choices among black women -- ages 18-34

Link to tweet

[emmaverybo]

14. The least reliable voting bloc prefers Sanders. This is meaningless. The true picture is presented

in the poll in the OP.

[melman]

15. Writing off young people

That sounds like a solid plan.

[emmaverybo]

19. Melman, you know very well that in terms of winning it will not be enough for younger people

to vote More points are not awarded by age. A range of ages will vote. That full range is not included in the poll you cite, which can only provide a break-down in ages of potential voters’ support.

Bernie definitely speaks to younger voters. He’s talking Revolution, so of course.

If there’s one thing I like about him it is his ability to engage the political imagination of youth.

[JI7]

25. nobody wrote them off. young people have always voted in low numbers

because they have interests other than politics.

[bearsfootball516]

26. It's not writing them off. Young people are by far the least reliable voting block historically.

They're also the most heavily Democratic. If the 18-30 block of voters came out to vote in force, we would never lose a presidential election.

[Cha]

29. No one is "writing off young people".. don't you

write off the OP.

[cannabis_flower]

16. The true picture is...

The 26%+ that have not decided/chose not to answer/aren't sure yet!

[emmaverybo]

23. A good point. Let the other candidates work hard as Biden has on civil rights issues and to

form relationships with AA communities across America. As well, the black electorate will have to
see others as electable.

[Thekaspervote]

17. Agree, much to the distress of the nation's voters, the young are abysmal at voting

[YOHABLO]

18. I think that 26% other/pnta has significance. Not sure what it might mean.

[YOHABLO]

20. I'm not sure whether the 'Essence' poll is something to look at or not.

I don't know anything about this poll.

[Cha]

30. It's Essence's Magazine for Black Women's poll..

https://www.essence.com/

[stonecutter357]

31. K&R

[5starlib]

32. My African-American mother (elderly) is ride or die for Biden

Gaffes and all. She said she'll crawl to the poll to vote for Biden. She LOVES Obama and views Biden as a protector of his legacy, whereas the other candidates are trying to tear it apart and rip it to shreds.

[Cha]

37. Thank you so much for telling

us that, 5starlib!

I love it! This white woman feels the same!

[Thekaspervote]

53. Kudos to your mom!! and an insider view

Go Joe go..we’ve got your back!!!

[Scurrilous]

34. K&R

[Cha]

42. Thank you, Scurrilous!

[Scurrilous]

45. ...

[Recursion]

38. That's a bigger result for Yang than I would have guessed (nt)

[betsuni]

39. K&R

[BlueMississippi]

48. k&r nt

[ecstatic]

52. These results didn't ring true to me, so I looked up more info

A total of 1068 ESSENCE Insiders participated in the survey of Black women, Age 18+.

Nearly 97% of the respondents are registered voters

https://www.scribd.com/document/424943958/2019-BWR-Essence-5th-Annual-Power-of-the-Sister-Vote-Survey

[NYMinute]

56. Highly recommend nt