Daily Deacon

B Matter – Brandon Liu

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Hillary Clinton is a strong candidate among minority and female voters. In South Carolina, the black voters that Obama won in 2008, voted Hillary over Sanders 6 to 1. The results from Super Tuesday confirmed Hillary’s popularity among black voters in southern states.

Self-described democratic socialist, Bernie Sanders continued to remind voters that the race is determined by delegates.

After Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders who is popular among youths made a greater effort to appeal to black voters, starting in Michigan.

Voter turnout for both parties during the primaries was record setting. The Democratic party received 250,000 votes, significantly less than the Republican party which received 285,000 votes.

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Trump led the Super Tuesday primaries with more delegate counts than Cruz and Rubio combined.

The GOP faces internal conflict after Thursday, when previous Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney attacked Trump, receiving endorsement from previous GOP presidential nominee John McCain, and support from many others.

Exit polls in Virginia during Tuesday’s primary showed Republicans voted satisfied with their candidate while Democrats voted out of dissatisfaction towards the opposing candidate.

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North Carolina’s recently passed voter ID law makes voting for minorities and students to vote. Only two out of 35 million votes were referred in cases of voter fraud between 2000 and 2014, leading critiques to believe the law was implemented to strengthen the Republican vote.

Early voting takes place between March 3 and March 12. Voters can go to any open polling location during early voting but must go to their assigned precint on March 15.

More than 600 people showed up on the first day of early voting in Forsyth County.