Every Democratic Candidates' 'Black Agenda,' Ranked

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On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. After giving white America a head start on selecting the party’s nominee, the Democratic Party now turns to South Carolina.

Black voters cast about 6 percent of the combined votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. However, South Carolina’s Democratic electorate is 55 percent black and the state’s black turnout is higher than the national and state participation rate for white voters.

Now that the competitors had the chance to warm up their campaigns in the whiter states, we decided to investigate how the contenders plan to address racism, inequality and other issues that affect black people. To do this, we examined each official candidates’ campaign literature, as well as their past statements, policies and political histories.

We asked policy experts, legal scholars and political pundits, all of whom were black, to help us devised a policy matrix. Then we graded each plan on a scale of 1 to 10 using the following criteria:

The results:

1. Elizabeth Warren - score 79
2. Joe Biden - score 70
3. Pete Buttigieg - score 66
4. Tom Steyer - score 62
5. Bernie Sander - score 50
6. Michael Bloomberg - score 43
7. Amy Klobuchar - score 22
8. Tulsi Gabbard - score 0


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1. Interesting. Liz comes out on top. (nt)