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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Two posts from The Root about Andrew Yang. :)
Really good analysis of the mythical black vote in the lead up to their rankings here.
The Democratic Candidates, Ranked by Cookoutworthiness
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Statistically, every non-white ethnic and racial demographic in America favors the Democratic Party, not just black voters. Like the white vote, black voters shouldnt be lumped into one homogenous category. The concerns of socially conservative, rural black voters are totally different from progressive city-dwellers. Black people in Harlem have different motivations and issues than African Americans in South Carolina and Mississippi. (For instance, despite conventional wisdom, black southern voter registration and turnout are higher than in any other region in the country, often outpacing the white vote in some states, according to the U.S. Census data.)
Therefore, to properly evaluate a candidates appeal to black voters, we decided to create an algorithm that encompasses the concerns of different groups of black voters. We named this metric cookoutworthiness and rated each candidate in four different categories, on a scale from 1-10:
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https://www.theroot.com/the-democratic-candidates-ranked-by-cookoutworthiness-1841434602
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Statistically, every non-white ethnic and racial demographic in America favors the Democratic Party, not just black voters. Like the white vote, black voters shouldnt be lumped into one homogenous category. The concerns of socially conservative, rural black voters are totally different from progressive city-dwellers. Black people in Harlem have different motivations and issues than African Americans in South Carolina and Mississippi. (For instance, despite conventional wisdom, black southern voter registration and turnout are higher than in any other region in the country, often outpacing the white vote in some states, according to the U.S. Census data.)
Therefore, to properly evaluate a candidates appeal to black voters, we decided to create an algorithm that encompasses the concerns of different groups of black voters. We named this metric cookoutworthiness and rated each candidate in four different categories, on a scale from 1-10:
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https://www.theroot.com/the-democratic-candidates-ranked-by-cookoutworthiness-1841434602
The title of this one shows what the writer thinks of Yang
Yang Extends His 15 Minutes, Buttigieg Is Still Serving His Penance and Michael Bennet Is Finally in It: 2020 Presidential Black Power Rankings, Week 27
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This week, we tried something new. We chose only low information voters for the Power Rankings. Whats a low-information voter? Not you, because youre actually reading the Black Power Rankings. Low-information voters are the millions of Americans who dont care about politicsyour friends who think Ukraine is a special kick Daniel used at the end of Karate Kid; your aunt who literally thinks that Larry David is the real person and Bernie Sanders is a character he plays on SNL.
Its easy to assume low-information people are stupid and care more about the Real Housewives than the impeachment hearings (for many of you, its still a toss-up), but the truth is, they are also some of the best voters to talk to when youre trying to really predict whats going to happen in a presidential election. Not because they know whats going to happen (remember, these people couldnt tell the difference between Mayor Pete and a sentient jar of actual mayonnaise wearing khakis...which, by the way, even I get confused sometimes) but because they are indicative of what messages actually pierce through the daily grind of school, work, Instagram, and daily blackness in America.
We asked them to pay attention to the candidates this week, listen to them on television, follow them on social media, check out their websites and see what appealed to them. I was sure theyd go for Joe Biden out of familiarity and name recognition, and I was totally wrong, which means you should take my sports predictions (Chiefs over the 49ers, 35 to 28 in Sundays Super Bowl) as being only slightly more credible than my Iowa caucuses prediction (Sanders wins in the first round but Biden or Buttigieg pulls off a technical upset based on second-choice votes). Now, on to the rankings.
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https://www.theroot.com/yang-extends-his-15-minutes-buttigieg-is-still-serving-1841390411
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This week, we tried something new. We chose only low information voters for the Power Rankings. Whats a low-information voter? Not you, because youre actually reading the Black Power Rankings. Low-information voters are the millions of Americans who dont care about politicsyour friends who think Ukraine is a special kick Daniel used at the end of Karate Kid; your aunt who literally thinks that Larry David is the real person and Bernie Sanders is a character he plays on SNL.
Its easy to assume low-information people are stupid and care more about the Real Housewives than the impeachment hearings (for many of you, its still a toss-up), but the truth is, they are also some of the best voters to talk to when youre trying to really predict whats going to happen in a presidential election. Not because they know whats going to happen (remember, these people couldnt tell the difference between Mayor Pete and a sentient jar of actual mayonnaise wearing khakis...which, by the way, even I get confused sometimes) but because they are indicative of what messages actually pierce through the daily grind of school, work, Instagram, and daily blackness in America.
We asked them to pay attention to the candidates this week, listen to them on television, follow them on social media, check out their websites and see what appealed to them. I was sure theyd go for Joe Biden out of familiarity and name recognition, and I was totally wrong, which means you should take my sports predictions (Chiefs over the 49ers, 35 to 28 in Sundays Super Bowl) as being only slightly more credible than my Iowa caucuses prediction (Sanders wins in the first round but Biden or Buttigieg pulls off a technical upset based on second-choice votes). Now, on to the rankings.
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https://www.theroot.com/yang-extends-his-15-minutes-buttigieg-is-still-serving-1841390411
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