Back in July, there was great laughter and knowing nods when some polls showed that then Republican presidential contender Donald Trump would get 0 percent of the black vote. That seemed about right at the time. Trump seemingly earned and deserved the goose egg with his horrendous record of slamming the door on blacks in…
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(Editor’s note: The following was written by columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson last December.) There’s no shortage of chatter about Republican presidential contender Donald Trump campaigning. But almost nothing has been said about how a “President” Trump would actually govern. While there’s no consensus that he can win the GOP nomination, let alone the White House,…
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The early voting returns show two unsurprising things. One is that black voters are turning out in smaller numbers in some areas than they did in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The other is that the relatively lighter turnout is in marked contrast to the near record turnout among black voters for candidate Barack…
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