News Analysis: In the Black Community, It’s Not Voter Apathy

Public Politics is the negotiating process between interested constituencies regarding the access to and distribution of limited resources and the resulting outcome or policies pertaining to those resources.One of the popular narratives that was disseminated in mainstream America media to explain Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign loss to Donald Trump was post-Obama voter apathy in the African-American community. According to the Washington Post, “In 2016, a seven-point drop in Black voter turnout was perceived to have cost Clinton the election.Political commentators often cite Black voters’ “enthusiasm gap” as the primary reason for low turnout.