Supreme Court allows disputed South Carolina voting map

[tarheelbybirth]

No one ever answered this question for me when we discussed this issue a couple months ago, so I’ll ask it again here.

If Republicans moved 30,000 Black voters out of Nancy Mace’s 1st District after the 2020 elections and dumped them into Jim Clyburn’s 6th District prior to the 2022 elections then why did Clyburn’s margin of victory decrease?

He won by 47 percentage points in 2014, 43 points in 2016, 42 points in 2018, and 37 points in 2020. But he only won by 24 points in 2022. Do Black voters not like Jim Clyburn?

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6​

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated John McCollum and Mark Hackett in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James Clyburn (D)	68.2	197,477
		John McCollum (R)	30.8	89,258

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6​

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated Duke Buckner in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James Clyburn (D)	62.0	130,923
		Duke Buckner (R)	37.9	79,879

Maybe the difference between a presidential versus an off-year election.

 

[TJ8869]

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6​

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated John McCollum and Mark Hackett in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James Clyburn (D)	68.2	197,477
		John McCollum (R)	30.8	89,258

General election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6​

Incumbent James Clyburn defeated Duke Buckner in the general election for U.S. House South Carolina District 6 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔		James Clyburn (D)	62.0	130,923
		Duke Buckner (R)	37.9	79,879

Maybe the difference between a presidential versus an off-year election.

Perhaps, but 2018 was also an off-year and he won by 42 percentage points that year. Republicans supposedly dumped 30,000 Black voters into his district and yet his margin of victory was only about half of what it has been in recent elections.

 

[ft254]

What more evidence do you need that elections matter.

POS's of shit like the Orange Turd muck up the entire machinery.