Florida: "More than one in five early voters -- 22 percent -- was black"

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Black turnout, cont'd

More huge numbers from Florida: "More than one in five early voters -- 22 percent -- was black, though blacks account for just over 13 percent of the electorate."

And a North Carolina pollster thinks the African-American vote is likely to tip his state, and others:

I am much more confident that there will be a large increase in black turnout than I am that there will be a large increase in youth turnout, but the same truism applies to black voters: there will be a major movement toward the Democrats with them whether there's a large increase in turnout or not.

Take North Carolina as the biggest example. The 2004 exit poll showed John Kerry winning black voters in the state 85-15. A private poll we conducted statewide over the last few days showed Barack Obama winning them 95-5. That may not sound like a huge difference, but look at it this way. Kerry won them by 70. Obama's winning them by 90. Let's conservatively put black turnout at 20%. A 20% improvement with 20% of the population is worth an extra four points for Obama statewide. That's a huge deal.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Black_turnout_contd.html?showall

[niceypoo]

1. I believe that black voters will turn out at over 90% nation wide

A huge tipping point for Obama