Sen. Cory Booker will visit Alabama this weekend during an aggressive final push to turn out black voters in a Tuesday’s special election. I am hoping that the Jones campaign has done the kind of substantive outreach to black voters in Alabama on the issues that matter to them. But Jones has faced continued criticism that he has not put forward a specific platform addressing the concerns of black voters. One reason black voters don’t believe their vote counts is because Alabama has not elected a Democrat to Congress in decades. Also, Alabama’s long history of suppressing black voters has made some conclude that this is a losing fight.

Source: Washington Post December 08, 2017 12:06 UTC