Reminder: Why North Carolina?
- NC is not a red state.
- NC is a voter suppressed state.
- NC now has 16 electoral votes, similar to GA (16)and MI (15)..
- Trump won NC by ~ 75k votes, just 1.5% of the 5,500,000 votes cast.
Let’s talk demographics:
- NC is changing fast, and Republicans know it – which is why they’re cheating!
- NC is growing rapidly in ways that are similar to AZ, NV and GA!
- NC has an influx of out-of-state younger people relocating for tech and finance careers.
- Northerners are retiring in cities like Asheville, where beth, our BJ calendar girl, moved to.
As you guys know, we’re partnering with North Carolina Black Alliane to support their Youth Voter Engagement Program. This is an organization with a ten-year history of successfully registering and turning out young African-American voters on North Carolina’s 11 HBCU campuses.
We wanted to help them expand to two non-HBCU Black majority campuses (Phase I) and we raised funds for that.
Now we’re helping them expand to certain Community Colleges, which educate many more Black students than the state’s HBCUs (Phase II).
We have a Balloon Juice angel for the first $2,500, matching up to $100 per person
with donations in the comments or email to WaterGirl.
And we have an angel that is willing to pop in $5,000 if we get to $10,000 by midight on 7/22.
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