Wow, this is irresponsibly bad journalism. You're talking about women voters but only mention white women's votes specifically. You treat African American voters as a monolith but separate white voters by gender. This is so, so terrible.https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/940867082501218309 …
But more to the point, the story was about women of all colors rejecting Moore. The lede was not race-specific and the first data point was 58 percent of women (ALL women). voted for Jones. I broke out white women because they voted so differently than they usually do in Alabama.
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If that was the story, why didn't you write that story? You wrote the "white women" story. If they were the only group worthy of breaking out, you didn't write the story "about women of all colors"
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I think I did write that story. The headline is women, the lede is women, the main data point is 58 percent of women - all women. All that said, I understand your point and appreciate you making it.
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And I will just add, regarding your point about white women, white men were nearly twice as likely to vote for Jones than Obama in 2012, so I'm not really sure the story of change in white women's votes in comparison to white men's votes is all that notable either
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Hi Johnathan no response..?! I'll check back or do I need the white guy to ask questions in order to qualify for a response from you...asking for a friend
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I replied to one of the first people to Tweet at me - if not the first - and have replied to everyone who has emailed me to discuss, rather than having a public debate with everyone who Tweets. “Women” includes women of all colors and was intended to. Black women were #1 demo 1/2
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for Doug Jones. Black women are the #1 demo for Democrats in Alabama and for Democrats across the country. I have written a lot about that in the past and will continue to do so. The *shift* in voting behavior among white women, even thoug most were for Moore, was striking 2/3
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If exit polls were right, white women provided as many votes for Jones as black men - in Alabama! From a historical standpoint, that’s remarkable. But the really remarkable thing is that 58% of women - 98% of black women and 34% of white women - voted together to sink Moore. 3/3.
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Guess when you consider the sheer numbers; the balance of ethnicity in Alabama that would pan out. Just another take. Thank you for info...
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If it interests you, here’s a piece I wrote this week that talks a lot about the often-ignored importance of Alabama and other Deep South states in presidential elections. Black voters are key to picking Democratic nomineeshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/booker-campaigned-alabama-doug-jones-himself-n828296 …
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It is quite telling, and not st all surprising, that the lede would/should be all women. It is also telling that your defense is to double-down on your attempted erasure of African American women’s UNDENIABLE leadership in this victory. Speaks volumes.... about YOU!
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Maybe with respect to time this is true. Maybe not. But with respect to space the story is that black people of all genders rejected Moore.
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