Fifty-three percent of the 25,000 early votes cast on Sunday in Georgia and North Carolina came from black voters, according to The New York Times’ Upshot, likely a promising sign to the Democratic Senate candidates in those two states.
By comparison, 27 percent of all early voters in those two states were black this cycle, the Upshot also pointed out. Meanwhile, 68 percent of the total early votes in North Carolina and Georgia were white. On Sunday, 40 percent of early voters were white.
Those numbers also highlight one possible incentive for Republican efforts to roll back early voting on Sunday. In North Carolina, notably, there is no early voting on the Sunday before the election. This past Sunday was the only Sunday where people could do in-person voting in 2014, according to the Upshot.
Both Sens. Kay Hagan (D-NC) and Democrat Michelle Nunn (GA) are hoping a strong turn out of black voters will help boost them over North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Georgia’s David Perdue, the respective Republican Senate candidates in those states.
Souls to the Polls: It’s real, and it shows up in the numbers on Sunday http://t.co/tMMKjwn4tI pic.twitter.com/4wBPJSSTWV
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) October 29, 2014
