Take a hard look at the data: Harris should be able to quickly consolidate support that was slow to coalesce around Biden
‘Enthusiasm for electing the first woman of color as president will likely be a thunderclap that consolidates the support of voters of color … ’‘Enthusiasm for electing the first woman of color as president will likely be a thunderclap that consolidates the support of voters of color … ’amala Harris will likely be the next president of the United States – and that’s overall good news if you care about democracy, justice and equality.
Second, although far too many in the media proceed from the premise that large swaths of the electorate are up for grabs each election cycle and susceptible to switching their political allegiances from one party to the other, the actual data starkly contradicts that belief., “a joint collaboration between the University of Michigan and Stanford University” that analyzes voter behavior over several decades. The Anes has found aof swing voters virtually disappearing from the populace.
First of all, those figures are so historically aberrant that they call into question the polling methodology. Biden received 65% of the Latino vote in 2020, and 87% of the Black vote . Either there has been a cataclysmic decline of support for Biden among voters of color, or the pollsters just aren’t that good at surveying people of color, or people of color are expressing their current lack of enthusiasm, which is a very different thing than how they will ultimately vote in November.
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