Metro Black vote high, but not ‘game changing’ on Nov. 4

By Christopher payday loans from a mobile Tidmore
Contributing Writer

By early afternoon on November 4, consultants for some Caucasian Democrats on the ballot in Orleans and the Black-majority areas of Jefferson began to worry.

The African-American vote had surged in Orleans and the inner metro that morning, thanks to GOTV efforts by the campaign of Sen. Mary Landrieu. That was good for the re-election of the incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator, whom each of the consultants personally supported, but as they admitted to The Louisiana Weekly, such a installment loans lansing mi strong Black turnout was also potentially bad for the white candidates they represented.

Then word came that at about 12:15, for a reason that prognosticators could not understand, the Black vote in metro New Orleans suddenly dropped off. The after-work surge on a Tuesday federal election of Black voters simply did not occur, and few were sure as to why.

In the end, the Black vote constituted just under 59.1 percent of the electorate in Orleans, and 25.5 percent in Jefferson, current rates for unsecured loans a high turnout, but slightly underperforming the percentages of the Black turnout in 2008, the last time Mary Landrieu was on the ballot. Consequently, the surge was strong enough to knock off endangered white judicial candidates, but not enough to endanger any strong incumbents.

For example, If Landrieu had gotten the same numbers as she and Barack Obama had in 2008, it’s likely that incumbent Orleans CDC Judge Christopher Bruno would have seen a much closer race than the bad credit loans same day payout 56 percent margin he won over Ruth Ramsey, and Marie Williams might have forced a runoff in the Criminal Courts race with Frank Marullo, rather seeing the four decade incumbent win with 51 percent.

That is not to say that African-American candidates did not prevail on November 4 over Caucasian challengers.

In the open Criminal Court, Section G race, Municipal Court Judge Paul Sens’ name recognition proved insufficient to beat Byron Williams. However, Williams en­joyed extensive White crossover vote thanks to his years as an Assistant US Attorney and judicial watchdog, and Sens alienated some past voters by attempting to advance to a different court for motives that remained unclear to the electorate.

Otherwise, besides Bruno, thanks to moderate Black turnout, White Democrat Janet Ahern will now have a chance to face Black Democrat Monique Barial in a December 6 runoff, where African-American turnout might be a huge factor in which candidate wins the open Domestic section of CDC. personal loan pep

While Black turnout had limited impact in Orleans, it had a major impact in Jefferson, in the one district where it really counted. Terri Miles, the sole White candidate in a new African-American Majority district, despite running an almost flawless race, did not force a runoff. Surges in African-American vote helped Adrian Adams win without a second primary, despite a major turnout effort by the third candidate, African-American Democrat Angel Varnado.

This article originally published in the November 10, 2014 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.