Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday Democrats would be “better off” focusing their efforts on Mississippi rather than Florida after Republicans swept the elections in the Sunshine State.
Carville joined MSNBC’s “The Reid Out” and was discussing the recent midterm elections and the difficulty of getting black voters to turn out. Carville said that Mississippi’s black population is nearly one-third of the state total, which means Democrats have some room for growth.
“A state that interests me a lot is Mississippi which is 37, maybe 38% black, it only votes 30. If you took your staff from 30 to 38, that’s a lot of votes. We don’t lose that bad in Mississippi. It’s not as many electoral votes, but we might be better off looking harder at Mississippi than Florida.”
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