The Clinton campaign is relying on a heavily promoted narrative that minority voting, specifically black voting, is lower as compared to 2012 and 2008. This approach appears to be their effort to boost voter turnout. However, this narrative is not necessarily true.
If you pay close attention to their cited comparables – what the MSM are comparing is often “percentage of voters“, not the underlying raw voter stat.
FYI, Example:
- If 10 out of 50 voters are black = 20% black voting.
- If 15 out of 100 voters are black = 15% black voting.
Even though the number of black voters in this example is higher (15 vs 10), the current preferred media narrative is to focus on the percentage (15% vs 20%).
In almost all media broadcasts they are using the percentage of vote as the metric to drive the narrative. Few, if any, are showing the underlying number of voters. (more…)
