{"id":13539,"date":"2016-04-10T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2016-04-09T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T11:05:29","slug":"when-blackvotesdontmatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=13539","title":{"rendered":"When #blackvotesdontmatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Wriiten September 17, 2015 – the Democrat won in November]<\/p>\n

Black Votes Don’t count – when they aren’t cast. Despite early voting, easy absentee balloting and same day registration without ID, turnout in the Charlotte primary election for Mayor and City Council was below 9%<\/strong>. There are no “Jim Crow” laws to blame. Despite Charlotte being 45% black and overwhelmingly Democratic, the next mayor will be white. Black voters are around 65% of Democratic voters on the registration rolls. White is good for business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Wriiten September 17, 2015 – the Democrat won in November] Black Votes Don’t count – when they aren’t cast. Despite early voting, easy absentee balloting and same day registration without ID, turnout in the Charlotte primary election for Mayor and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}