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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 07:44 PM Aug 2021

How bout these figures:

Link below shows often 2/3rds of americans are for vaccine mandates for some professions and federal employees. Add 6% of Americans who are african american and don't want vaccine mandates (a guess) but will vote Democratic (See Dan Patrick below for incidents of aa not getting vaccines) You have the number of people voting for Democrats at over 70% if the right keeps on with their antivax bullshit and lose the support of independants and get the aa vote too. I was assuming pro vaccine percentage polls included all Democrats. But they don't.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215755732

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https://politicalwire.com/2021/08/20/texas-lt-governor-blames-african-americans-for-covid-surge/

Texas Lt. Governor Blames African-Americans for Covid Surge

August 20, 2021 at 4:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 347 Comments

NBC News: “Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said unvaccinated African Americans — not lax coronavirus precautions in states like his — are responsible for the surge in Covid-19 cases in his state.”

Said Patrick: “The Covid is spreading, particularly most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated, and the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that. Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated. Last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties, so it’s up to the Democrats.

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Hopefully the FDA approving Pfizer will help those who are legitimately afraid get over their fears of a vaccine.

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