Blacks and Democrats maintain their turnout, producing two tight races for Senate control

Black voters and Democrats held on to their share of the electorate in Georgia’s runoff election Tuesday, with voters overall split down the middle on preferred control of the U.S. Senate – a recipe for two more extraordinarily tight races in a state that recently was reliably Republican.

Black people – a core Democratic group – accounted for 29% of voters in the ABC News exit poll, essentially the same number, 28%, from November. And 36% of all voters were Democrats, as were 34% two months ago. Democratic turnout often flags in runoffs; not so this time. CONTINUED

Gary Langer, Christine Filer & Steven Sparks, ABC News


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