black voter turnout 2012

(AP) — Making history, America’s blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data show. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996. ...

In spite of new voter ID laws that many believed were implemented to reduce Black voting, African-American voter turnout was historically high in...