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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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>  www.jointcenter.org
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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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