Black women are highly motivated to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, with an overwhelming majority citing “pocketbook” concerns, like the cost of housing and groceries, as core issues, a new national poll shows.
A customer shops in a Kroger grocery store in Houston, Texas in Aug. 2022 amid rising food costs due to inflation.A new national poll of Black women voters reveals a demographic that is highly motivated to vote in the, with an overwhelming majority citing “pocketbook” issues, like the cost of housing and groceries as core concerns. Among this well-established key voting bloc, reproductive rights and crime/gun violence also emerged as concerns.
by November, according to a Pew Research Center report. Black women represent 53% of Black eligible voters, slightly higher than all eligible voters in the country. Similar viewpoints have cropped up in other national surveys, among them the annual Black Women’s Roundtable and Essence “Power of the Sister Vote”. Conducted by Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies, its interviewers surveyed 601 women by phone between Feb. 28 and March 6.
The economy was much on the minds of the women she met during the tour. “Food, gas, housing, and the cost of living overall,” Allison said. “Part of that is being paid fairly, and earning a living wage. Women want to be able to live a life of dignity, and they want answers to how elected officials in government can help them.”
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