MSNBC's Domenico Montanaro: Black Voters Were a Key Demographic in Democrat Terry McAuliffe's Victory Over Ken Cuccinelli in Virginia

 Virginia Governor-Elect Terry McAuliffe
(Democrat)

Photo by Kate Wellington

The MSNBC article is linked below.

MSNBC: Black Voters Proved Crucial in McAuliffe's Victory

"Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost white voters to Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli by 20 points in the Virginia governor’s race, 56-36 percent.

But McAuliffe still won the election by 3 points, 48-45 percent. How is that possible when more than seven-in-10 (72 percent) of Virginia voters Tuesday were white?

Simple: Black voters.

McAuliffe won black voters by a 90-8 percent margin, a similar spread to the 93-6 percent President Barack Obama ran up in the 2012 presidential election in the Old Dominion."

---Domenico Montanaro, MSNBC