ENTHUSIASM GAP HAS RACIAL TINGE IN MEMPHIS.

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Memphis is one of those places where virtually everything comes down to race. They even track voter turnout by race during early voting. In the first few days of early voting in Tennessee there is a huge gap in white and black turnout, that may underscore the looming disaster in Tennessee and beyond for the Democrats. CLICK HERE. But the numbers in the article don’t seem to add up. According to this article, 29.8% of the Memphis voters are white and 34.4% are black? So what are the other 35.8%?

Voters in the category of “other,” which includes some nonwhite and nonblack voters but is largely a mix of black and white voters more recently added to the voter rolls, had cast 3,944 ballots through Friday, making up 25.3 percent — compared to the 35.8 percent that “other” voters comprise of the county electorate. In other words, the Commercial Appeal doesn’t really know if there is as much of a race gap as their story details, but they did the story anyway? There probably is a big race gap in turnout in Memphis, but the “facts” in this story don’t really provide the evidence.