“The progress we have made on vaccinations so far is impressive. The U.S. can beat back the Delta variant, stop others from emerging and finish what we started, but our research indicates that to do so, we need to shift our thinking and our policies.” — David Blumenthal & Henry Fernandez
A recent poll conducted by the ACLU reveals that a majority of Coloradans from diverse backgrounds support the reduction of the prison population. Last week’s voter poll briefing by the ACLU was issued to 1,223 likely voters throughout the state of Colorado. Implemented by the African American Research Collaborative (AARC), the poll specifically centered young Black and Latinx voters across the state.
In the last two years, COVID-19 has dropped from a top concern for Colorado voters to low on the list. Now at the top of that list ahead of the November election are issues like affordable housing and civil rights issues.
The ACLU of Colorado commissioned a poll of 1,223 likely voters in Colorado last month through the African American Research Collaborative. Ninety-five percent of the poll’s respondents were already registered voters in the state.
The poll found 80% of Coloradans consider housing affordability as either a major issue or a crisis. Also among top concerns were the economy and homelessness.
“There is a flavor of concern of the inflation and economy that is directly tied to civil rights,” said Isaiah Bailey, a research fellow with the AARC. He said it was encouraging that voters are understanding the connection of those ideas.
Coloradans trust their state government more than the federal government and civil rights issues that are “ripping at the fabric” of other states seem to have more of a consensus in Colorado, according to polling from the African American Research Collaborative. Survey respondents scored the affordable housing ballot initiative as a 7.43 (mean score out of 10), which reflects the level of support the ACLU saw for the measure at 77%. They scored seeing it as a reason to vote at 7.48.
“Among unvaccinated adults, 31 percent surveyed in May said they would be more likely to get a coronavirus vaccine following full FDA approval, a <a ” href=”https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-june-2021/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Kaiser Family Foundation survey found. Other studies found similar results, according to Gabriel Sanchez, a political science professor and founder of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Policy at the University of New Mexico.
He cites the American COVID-19 Vaccine Poll from the African American Research Collaborative, which “found that 28 percent of unvaccinated Americans noted that they were concerned that the Biden administration was pushing the vaccines too quickly without proof that they are safe.”
“Also during [a virtual event sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy], Henry Fernandez, CEO of the African American Research Collaborative, which recently polled more than 12,000 people regarding their attitudes on vaccination, was asked whether he thought that the FDA’s granting of full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was likely to result in more people being vaccinated.
Fernandez said he didn’t see that approval per se would convince people, but that the employer and government mandates that are likely to follow full approval would have an impact.”
“AARP commissioned Precision Market Research, Latino Decisions, and the African American Research Collaborative to conduct the study, where 2,808 American adults participated. The study focused on Black and Latino adults.
The researchers concluded that education is critical in helping consumers spot and avoid scams. However, the survey indicated that Educational efforts about scams and fraud might underserve Black adults compared with white and other racial groups.
“The American COVID-19 Vaccine Poll, a new national survey focused on overcoming obstacles to full and equitable vaccination coverage, has a large oversample of Native Americans (n = 1,920) and provides needed data to inform the next phase of vaccination outreach for Native communities across the country…
Native Americans are often left out of national surveys like this one, either altogether invisible or delegated to an “other” category. The inclusion of a large Native American population in this study is therefore quite notable, as it provides insight into what is needed to overcome vaccine hesitancy among Native Americans across the US.”
“More than half of unvaccinated Americans said if they had an option, they would prefer to get a Covid-19 shot from their local doctor’s office, according to a poll released in June by the African American Research Collaborative and the Commonwealth Fund.”
“One-third of unvaccinated Hispanics said they believed receiving a Covid vaccine could complicate immigration status for themselves or their family, despite the Biden administration’s assurances that it would not, according to a national survey from the African American Research Collaborative and the Commonwealth Fund this month.”
“But the pandemic has disproportionately affected Black, Latino and Native Americans. There’s a direct correlation between the rates of COVID-19 hospitalization and deaths among racial and ethnic groups. A poll of more than 12,000 Americans ages 18 and up on the vaccine released last week by the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative found that unvaccinated people of color are more hesitant about getting the coronavirus vaccine than their white counterparts.”
“The massive American COVID-19 Vaccine Poll is a partnership between the African American Research Collaborative (AARC), The Commonwealth Fund, The National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO), and other national organizations. The survey also found that 15 percent of New Mexicans who had their first shot do not plan to get their second dose. Many of those respondents said they think one shot is enough for them to feel protected.”
“According to a study released this week by the African American Research Collaborative, almost one-third of unvaccinated Black Americans who expressed some hesitancy to get the vaccine say the discrimination their communities have faced within the health care system makes it hard to trust that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective.
Top reasons for hesitancy among unvaccinated Black and non-Black respondents included believing that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is dangerous and can cause blood clots and that the vaccine can give you COVID and make you sick.”
“The Commonwealth Fund partnered with the African American Research Collaborative to conduct a 12,000-person survey to better understand why people from the Black, Latino, Native American, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities might be reluctant to get the coronavirus vaccine and to ask about access issues and incentives that would encourage people to get a shot.
More than 40 percent of Native Americans, African Americans and Latinos who said they were hesitant about the vaccine also experienced discrimination by the health system, including denial of specialist referrals, the opportunity to speak with a physician or care in their preferred language.”
“In the largest study of its kind released this week, the African American Research Collaborative surveyed more than 15,000 Black, Latino, and Native American people and found more than 40% are still hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
More than 70% said it’s because they have trouble finding transportation or getting time off work. Nearly one-third said it’s their history with discrimination that’s made it hard to trust that vaccines are safe and effective.”
“The nationwide poll of more than 12,000 people was conducted jointly by the African American Research Collaborative and the Commonwealth Fund. Racial disparities were evident in the breakdown of the unvaccinated. In total, 42% of the respondents had not been vaccinated; in contrast, 46% of Blacks, 47% of Latinos, and 44% of Native Americans were unvaccinated. Meanwhile, just 40% of whites and 31% of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) were in that category. Yet it was White Americans, more than any of the other racial group, who bought into the rampant misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.”
“According to the African American Research Collaborative, discrimination and racial injustice was the second most important issue for Black voters during the 2020 presidential election. Over 75% of respondents think racism and discrimination against Blacks increased over the last four years. An American University survey labeled young Black Americans as “key 2020 swing voters.”
“The nationwide poll, by the African American Research Collaborative and the Commonwealth Fund, highlights how vaccine hesitancy is still a critical issue, especially among communities of color. Nearly one-third of unvaccinated Black Americans and one-fifth of unvaccinated Native Americans who expressed some sense of vaccine hesitancy say the discrimination their communities have faced within the health-care system makes it hard to trust that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective, the study found.”
“A survey conducted by the African American Research Collaborative, the NAACP and the Vera Institute of Justice last November shows that discrimination and racial justice were the second most important issues to Black voters after the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Henry Fernandez, a national pollster with the African American Research Collaborative, sampled thousands of voters in recent months to learn their priorities and concerns. Though “COVID dominates,” discrimination and racial justice are No. 2 among Black respondents,” he said. Next are jobs and the economy, followed by police reform.”
“The American Election Eve Poll, conducted by a coalition of specialized political research groups, found that approximately 84 percent of Black voters supported Biden and about 12 percent supported Trump in Nevada, where Biden won by nearly 34,000 votes… The Election Eve poll, conducted through a partnership of the specialized political research groups African American Research Collaborative, Latino Decisions and Asian American Decisions, is based on more than 15,000 nationwide telephone interviews and self-completed online surveys from voters, including 400 Black Nevadans, from mid-October to Nov. 2.”
“Fernandez, a lawyer and expert with the African American Research Collaborative, or AARC, has queried people across the country about their candidate choices, motivations and policy priorities.
So he wasn’t surprised that Black Americans voted “overwhelmingly” for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, while “white people turned out in a big way for President Donald Trump.” The Biden-Harris victory, he asserts, is a “sea change in American politics.”
“This election shows the country is no longer dominated politically by white voters,” Fernandez said. “A coalition led by people of color is now the dominant political reality in the United States.”
“So, it is certainly true that the majority of African American voters in Ohio, and across the country, are going to vote for the Democratic ticket,” said Henry Fernandez, CEO and principal of the African American Research Collaborative.
An African American Research Collaborative poll this summer found that in response to the statement “I do not always like Trump’s policies, but I like the way he shows strength and defies the establishment,” 35 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Black voters reported agreement, while only 10 percent of Black voters ages 60 and older did so.
In July, an African American Research Collaborative Poll found 35 percent of Black Americans aged between 18 and 29 appreciated Trump’s strong personality, while not always agreeing with the president’s policies.
Her Senate record and combative positions against Trump administration officials help explain Harris’s strong level of support among Black voters, according to Henry Fernández, author of the AARC polling memo.
A July poll from the African American Research Collaborative similarly found that strong majorities of Black voters would be more likely to encourage friends and family to vote for Biden if he picked a Black or African American woman.
Children in cages, children held by our government without access to soap, baths or toothbrushes, children caked in filth and excrement — and administration lawyers defending it all. These are not mistakes, but official policy as offered by President Donald Trump. Bizarrely it is also part of Trump’s political strategy, not just to engage his most steadfast supporters, but apparently to reach out to African American and Latino voters.
“This particular segment of the black population is interpreting the way that they believe they will be perceived if they wear a mask,” said Henry Fernandez, a principal at the African American Research Collective. “How rules are enforced is shaping what should be health-maintaining habits in communities of color.”
The poll from the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) commissioned by the NAACP found that 80 percent of surveyed black Americans held a “fair” or “poor” view of the way Trump has responded to the coronavirus outbreak, while 19 percent had a positive view.
The administration’s response has led to increased lack of trust among African Americans: On a scale of zero to 10, Trump ranked at the bottom of trusted messengers, below Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Anthony Fauci, and ordinary doctors and nurses, according to a poll of African Americans released today by the African American Research Collaborative.
When Julián Castro declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination last month, he spoke of the Black Lives Matter movement and recalled Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo. and other African Americans who died in confrontations with police.
Long story short, because of Trump, the table may now be set for the first black woman to be President.
Across competitive elections, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to 53 percent of voters overall. It also found 91 percent of Black women, 86 percent of Black men and 50 percent of white voters believe Trump and the GOP are using toxic rhetoric to divide the nation.
HE’S NO BARACK OBAMA. But President Donald Trump is having his own motivating effect on African-American voters, who overwhelmingly cast votes for Democrats in this month’s midterms – in large part because of the damage Trump has done to the GOP brand, according to pollsters who surveyed African-Americans immediately before the elections.
Democratic wins in the 2018 midterms were driven largely by African American voters — particularly black women — who increasingly associate the GOP with President Trump’s perceived hostility toward people of color and immigrants, according to an analysis released Monday.
The key takeaway from the poll was that Democrats’ 2018 wins across the country were dependent on voters of color, particularly black voters, as a majority of white voters supported Republicans. Four out of five Black voters voted for Democrats compared to less than one-half of white voters.
Alabama, Georgia, Virginia. Over the last year strong black voter turnout in all three states drove progressive wins in a special election (Alabama), a primary (Georgia) and a general election (Virginia).
A new poll on voters’ attitudes in the nation’s most competitive House races showed that when it comes to perceptions of racism, there are two Americas — one in which people of color are distressed by President Trump’s rhetoric and policies and another in which white Americans are far less convinced that there’s a problem.
Pollster Henry Fernandez of the African-American Research Collaborative reports that black women in particular feel “disrespected” by Trump, a fact that may mean Charlottesville will come back to hurt Trump after all.
Donald Trump may not be up for re-election this fall, but a new survey shows anger at the president and a feeling of being disrespected by him is expected to drive black voters to the polls in dozens of competitive U.S. House races in November.
Kanye West and Dennis Rodman’s recent endorsements of Donald Trump have not impressed black voters in competitive districts whose deep dissatisfaction with the president could play a “key role” in the midterms, according to a poll released Tuesday.
“If the focus of the parties and those organizations is on the predictable electorate, that would be a mistake. There are many more people who are at play who could be potential voters. It’s not just a question of what will those folks do on their own, but where will investments be made to encourage people to get out to vote?”
Anger over Trump’s immigration rhetoric and policy moves other minority groups as well, even if they are not directly affect by it, said Henry Fernandez of the African-American Research Collaborative.
“I think that at the core of this identification with the immigrants” for African and Native Americans in particular, he said, “is something visceral and familiar. ”
“In each case, we look back at the programs as barbaric,” Fernandez said. “History will similarly consider the Trump administration’s ripping children from their parents as an unconscionably evil government action.”
“Destroying families is one of the worst things done during slavery,” said Henry Fernandez, co-founder of the African American Research Collaborative and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. “The federal government maintained these evils through the fugitive slave laws and other rules which defined African Americans as property with which a slave owner could do whatever they wanted.”
Just before Alabama held a special election to pick a new senator in December, the African American Research Collaborative survey had said the state, which hadn’t seen a Democrat elected to the position in 25 years, could be one of five states with congressional races where “black votes could matter.”
Want proof? Let’s take a deep dive into the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) study of the 2017 Virginia election, which found that high turnout among black Virginia voters, about one-fifth of the ballots cast, were the critical edge that pushed Democrat Ralph Northam to victory over Republican Ed Gillespie.
Surveys of African American voters leading up to Virginia’s recent elections found that Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie had surprisingly strong support among black voters in October but that he lost their votes in the final weeks of the campaign . . .
But Roger Vann, executive director of State Voices, noted on a reporter call this week that the effort to turn out black voters in Virginia didn’t just begin in the final three weeks of the Northam campaign. There had been a years-long investment in civic engagement in the state . . .
As February began, President Trump made a seemingly routine political gesture by convening in the White House with African American allies to mark Black History Month.
Another poll released last week by the African American Research Collaborative showed that although black voters are far less enthusiastic than they were four years ago, they believe this election is more important than the 2012 presidential election and they intend to vote.
[H]alf of respondents saying they did not like either candidate and significant numbers in each of the states surveyed saying they were more enthusiastic in 2012 than they are this year. But in all categories, respondents also emphasized that it is even more important to vote in 2016 than it was in 2012 . . .
African-Americans aren’t happy about the presidential election, but then again, who is? Enthusiasm among black voters has dropped 34 points from 2012, according to new polling released Friday. But 56 percent of African-Americans …
Voter turnout in the current election by African-Americans and criminal justice and policing were key issues in a recent poll by the African American Research Collaborative. The AARC, hosted by State Voices, is a unique collaborative consisting of pollsters, scholars, researchers and commentators . . .
Less than a week before the election, alarm bells went off over Hillary Clinton’s perceived “black voter problem.” A new poll conducted by the African American Research Collaborative . . .
But a survey of 1,200 African-American voters conducted last week across the country by the African American Research Collaborative and Latino Decisions found 22 percent of respondents had already voted. Of the 78 percent of black voters yet to cast a ballot, the poll found 86 percent said they are “highly likely” to do so. Almost all said they already had or would vote in congressional races, as well.
