turnout of african-american voters in north carolina. let s look at gender. we talked a little bit about men and women in this race. look at that right there. there is a 12-% difference. women now, of course, overwhelmingly going for hillary clinton. at least she has say strong lead to men. again, these are the early votes we re seeing in north carolina. we go back to twentsd 12, it s just about the same. if we go to the mill mentennial. these two columns predominantly would be democrat. these two could be republican. we re seeing a downtick right now, chris, as you can see in the younger voters. hillary clinton has got work to do in north carolina. donald trump needs north carolina in order to win the election. mark, thank you for that. let s talk about it who has the advantage in other voting states. errol louis and jack chi sin ku.
these are folks independents or aligned with another party. so looks like democrats have a pretty good lead. in many ways they do, 220,000 vote lead. but let s look at 2012 right here. look at the advantage they had at this time back in 2012, chris. right there they had a 291,000 vote lead at that time. so, clearly, we re seeing a tickdown. the question is where s it coming from and where are they losing votes? let s go into three different demographics. this is the obama coalition that he used to win in 2008 and 2012. right now, 73% have been white voters who have voted so far. black voters, 23%. just a little bit more than that. of course, the african-american vote overwhelmingly goes for a democrat. at 23% where were they back in 2012? look at this number right here. this is troubling for democrats. 28.4% at that time. so we re clearly seeing a downtick right now in the
where if you have a pre-existing condition, insurance companies can tell you no. he doesn t have an answer to it. of course it s not good, but it s not, i think, what s driving this election. bakari? november second of 2012, wall street journal had an article about mitt romney going to wisconsin and pennsylvania because the republican party was going to flip them red. so this is something that always happens. talk to president romney about how good that worked for him. so that s first. i also caucus. i want to talk about briefly something john king put up on the board which was the downtick from 2012 of the african-american vote and the reason we re seeing that is because the limited voting places and in a state like north carolina where you saw it was down 6.5%, hillary clinton is still winning, they just opened up new voting centers where african-americans and african-american counties like gilford county, mecklenburg county, all these other places where you re seeing the
million people who have it out. it s to return to situation where if you have a pre-existing condition, insurance companies can tell you no. he doesn t have an answer to it. of course it s not good, but it s not, i think, what s driving this election. bakari? because he doesn t have an answer. november 2nd of 2012, the wall street journal had an article about mitt romney going to wisconsin and pennsylvania because the republican party was going to flip them red. so this is something that always happens. talk to president romney about how good that worked for him. so that s first. i also caucus. i want to talk about briefly something john king put up on the board which was the downtick from 2012 of the african-american vote and the reason we re seeing that is because the limited voting places and in a state like north carolina where you saw it was down 6.5%, hillary clinton is still winning, they just opened up new voting centers where african-americans and african-america
loud effort by republicans to rename everything after reagan and turn ronald reagan into a saint. there s a reason they have to try so hard and the whole process has to be so overt. because the whole mt. reagan thing, and putting him on the dime, that was never going to happen on its own without someone really pushing for it. this is interesting, it s polling data from the gallup organization. and gallup keeps track of presidential approval ratings and they have for generations. presidential approval ratings mostly get attention at the moment when they are announced. when there are signs that a president s approval rating has ticked up or gone down for some reason. presidential approval ratings get a lot of short-term attention. but that data exists in perpetuity. and if you step back from the day-to-day noise and uptick and downtick in those numbers, those numbers taken from a big picture perspective, they can actually give you a really interesting historical view about an empirically