exactly. and in a way, i think reince priebus and the boys with their multi, multi, dozen state efforts to keep the blacks from the voting booths aroused you tell me. no. i think the voter suppression efforts drove up the black vote. i think they ticked people off and they made people more determined to show up at the polls. you saw that effect particularly in a state like ohio, for example. which was sort of ground zero. they really thought they had something going in ohio. it turned out they didn t at all. because the black vote was was greater than the white house proportionally. it s an incredible thing. for a guy who grew up in the south, when black people couldn t vote, it s extraordinary. talk about this. talk about this. there s three things going on here. one is the black vote is at least keeping its own in terms of showing up. which is the key. woody allen said 80% of life is showing up. if you don t show up and vote, you ain t voting. you can only complain then.
couldn t vote, it s extraordinary. talk about this. talk about this. there s three things going on here. one is the black vote is at least keeping its own in terms of showing up. which is the key. woody allen said 80% of life is showing up. if you don t show up and vote, you ain t voting. you can only complain then. you can still complain if you vote, of course. that s fair enough. the other thing the effort to try to screw the black voter in every way, no sunday voting, shorter hours, more paperwork, photo id, anything that will slow down the black vote. this other thing here is this need on the part of the democratic party for black votes. and a black constituency that wouldn t believe in them. we went into 2012 talking about an enthusiasm gap in the black community. and that black voters wouldn t turn out. the gop decided that they were not going to take a risk at that. what they wanted to do was change the rules to make it
here. one is the black vote is at least keeping its own in terms of showing up. which is the key. woody allen said 80% of life is showing up. if you don t show up and vote, you ain t voting. you can only complain then. you can still complain if you vote, of course. that s fair enough. the other thing the effort to try to screw the black voter in every way, no sunday voting, shorter hours, more paperwork, photo id, anything that will slow down the black vote. this other thing here is this need on the part of the democratic party for black votes. and a black constituency that wouldn t believe in them. we went into 2012 talking about an enthusiasm gap in the black community. and that black voters wouldn t turn out. the gop decided that they were not going to take a risk at that. what they wanted to do was change the rules to make it harder for black voters to turn out so we wouldn t get the turnout that we had in 2008. lo and behold, black folks decided we are not going to allow this ch