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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: JOINT CENTER RELEASES NEW REPORT ON BLACKS AND THE 2000
DEMOCRATIC
> NATIONAL CONVENTION
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:32:17 -0400
> From: Liselle Yorke
>
>
> PRESS RELEASE
> August 11, 2000
>
> CONTACT: Liselle Yorke
> (202) 789-6366
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> JOINT CENTER RELEASES NEW REPORT ON BLACKS AND THE 2000 DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL
> CONVENTION
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE: Eddie N. Williams and David A. Bositis will be available
for
> interviews at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. * The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
today
> released its quadrennial convention report, entitled Blacks and the 2000
> Democratic National Convention. A similar report on Blacks and the 2000
> Republican National Convention was released last month. In this second
report,
> author David A. Bositis, senior research associate, examines the
participation
> of African Americans in the Democratic party and in this year's
convention in
> Los Angeles, black trends in partisanship and voting, and black voters'
> attitudes on key public policy issues.
>
> "This report clearly demonstrates the importance of the black vote for
the
> Democratic Party," said Joint Center president Eddie N. Williams. "If
current
> conjectures about Ralph Nader siphoning off votes from Vice President
Gore hold
> true in November, African American voters will be an invaluable political
ally
> because they are less likely than other voting blocs to support third
party
> candidates."
>
> Black delegates comprise 20.1 percent (872) of the delegates attending
this
> year's Democratic National Convention. This year's attendance is about
the same
> as that in 1996 and slightly higher than in 1992 when black delegates
accounted
> for 17.9 percent. Compared to the Republican National Convention, more
African
> Americans are involved in managing the Democratic convention and
platform.
> Prominent black Democrats participating in this year's convention include
> convention co-chairs Lois DeBerry, a Tennessee state representative, and
> Wellington Webb, mayor of Denver, as well as platform committee co-chair
Sharon
> Sayles Belton, mayor of Minneapolis.
>
> Joint Center national surveys conducted since the last presidential
election
> show that 80 percent of African Americans identify themselves as
Democrats.
> While only 60 percent of 18-to-25-year old African Americans identified
> themselves this way, diminished support has not translated into increased
> support for the Republican Party, as those not identifying themselves as
> Democrats have tended to identify themselves as independents.
>
> Black votes represented a key bloc in many of the states that President
Clinton
> won in 1996 and most of them are again battleground states this year.
They
> include Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio, New Jersey,
Missouri,
> Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. More than half of President Clinton's
voters in
> Louisiana (52%) were black, as were 50 percent of his voters in Georgia
and a
> third in Maryland.
>
> Noting that black public opinion is neither as liberal nor as uniform as
> observers typically believe, author David Bositis predicts that "unless
there
> are some unexpected developments to significantly move black opinion, it
appears
>
> that Gore will receive a typical Democrat's share of the black vote of
roughly
> 90 percent."
>
> To receive a copy of this report, please contact the Joint Center's
Office of
> Communications and Marketing at (202) 789-6366. Limited copies of Blacks
and
> the 2000 Republican National Convention are still available. Both
reports are
> also available on the Joint Center's website: www.jointcenter.org.
>
> The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a nonpartisan,
nonprofit
> organization, conducts research and analyses on public policy issues of
concern
> to African Americans and other minorities, and promotes their involvement
in the
>
> governance process.
>
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