The day after Obama won I got cheers when I drove through Coatesville with Obama flags waving on my car. Democrats made long lines at every polling place. I never experienced an election with that much energy.
Bernie Sanders vs Trump in 2020 could double the voter turnout we had in Coatesville in 2008.
Cenk Uygur interviews Nina Turner after the Houston Democratic Debate on The Young Turks. Cenk and Nina discuss VP Joe Biden's comments about racism:
Bernie Sanders was fighting for Civil Rights in college and he never stopped fighting for civil rights. Bernie Sanders never has shied away from supporting Black people while the Clintons and Senator Biden made prisons the new plantations.
Nina Turner said Bernie Sanders will bring "more Black doctors, more Black nurses."
I grew up next door to Dr. & Ms. Stokes. They came from Louisville to Coatesville where there were more chances for Black medical professionals to advance. Dr. Stokes became the first Black Physician on the staff of Coatesville Hospital.
When I had emergency surgery at Brandywine Hospital my surgeon was Christopher Olukoga, a refugee from Nigeria. But we haven't come far enough. We haven't yet broken the chains of industrial slavery that is keeping the United States from being a true beacon of democracy.
Reconstruction after the Civil War remains as the high point of former slaves in the United States.
"Talk of the 2020 election has focused primarily on polling, whether it involves the Democratic primary or potential face-to-face match-ups with Trump. But Ron Brownstein took a look at something equally important: voter turnout. Political scientists are forecasting a veritable tsunami.
"Recent predictions are based on data points like the number of small contributions to presidential campaigns, cable news viewership, and polls indicating a high degree of interest in the election. But it also reflects what happened in the 2018 midterms, in which 35 million more people participated than in 2014. Here is the good news for Democrats.
McDonald estimates that the number of eligible voters increases by about 5 million each year, or about 20 million from one presidential election to the next. That increase predominantly flows from two sources: young people who turn 18 and immigrants who become citizens. Since people of color are now approaching a majority of the under-18 population—and also constitute most immigrants—McDonald and other experts believe it’s likely that minorities represent a majority of the people who have become eligible to vote since 2016.
However, that only matters if the newly eligible voters actually turn out on election day—which is exactly what happened in 2018.
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