VEP Press Release, May 15, 1984

Collection:: Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Title:: VEP Press Release, May 15, 1984
Date of Original:: 1984-05-15
Subject:: Political participation
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Demographic surveys
Location:: United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Medium:: news bulletins
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Press release from the Voter Education Project regarding a study of the May 8 presidential primary in North Carolina, which found that the Black vote was crucial to Jesse Jackson's strong showing, and it also provided the critical edge Walter Mondale needed to beat Gary Hart in the overall voting. Hart came in first by a very slim margin among white voters, but Mondale received 13.5% of the Black vote, which was fifteen times greater than the 0.9% of the Black vote that went to Hart. Jackson received 84.2% of the Black vote, with the remaining 1.4% going to other candidates or uncommitted. The Black vote was also crucial because the crossover vote by Blacks was almost twice as great as the crossover vote by whites. 15.6% of the Blacks voting cast their ballots for a white candidate, whereas only 8.6% of the whites voted for the Black candidate. 2 pages.
Metadata URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1909
Rights Holder:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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