with baffling bullshit, Census [!] ACS "overall" population estimates
IPSOS | Sanders and Biden Vie for the African American Vote, 17 Jan

African American voters make up 12.5% of the overall [sic] ["]electorate["] [TABLE. sample δ -1% 2012-2016], but constitute approximately 20% of the Democratic ["]base["], as they tend to vote exclusively vote Democratic. Just 8% of the African American vote went to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election [TABLE. 6% GOP 2012]. As a result, any Democrat running for the presidency must win over this voting bloc.

Underscoring just how important African American voters are in the general election, take a look at their vote break-down in the last two presidential elections. Even the slightest shifts in African American turnout, up or down, can make or break an election, particularly in swing states.[?]

There's a ["]legitimate["] argument to be made that the 2016 presidential election outcome might have been different if African Americans had turned out at similar levels as they did for Obama in 2012.

neither legal nor mathematical arguments not proved in this article, however -- Democrat Bloomberg vows to narrow wealth gap for black Americans, 19 Jan

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Jan. 15-16 showed ... Biden has the most African American support with 23%, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling in the month through mid-January, compared to 17% for Sanders, 9% for Warren and 7% for Bloomberg.

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