Over the last few weeks or so I’ve read several stories claiming that, due to their more socially conservative and religious background, African-American voters may have a problem with voting for Pete Buttigieg in a general election.

Even the New York Times ran a piece re. this (providing nothing more than anecdotes as evidence):

www.nytimes.com/…

Now, I like looking at poll crosstabs, and I saw something really interesting in the Atlanta Journal Constitution poll of Georgia that was released today.

Here’s the poll below:

www.ajc.com/…

And the crosstabs:

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The poll had good news for Democrats in that all of our main candidates appear to be leading Trump in the state:

Biden 51%, Trump 43%

Sanders 48%, Trump 44%

Warren 47%, Trump 44%

Buttigieg 46%, Trump 43%

Harris 45%, Trump 44%

What stood out to me, though, were the numbers of how each individual Democratic candidate performed against Trump among African-American voters. You can examine the crosstabs yourself, but in summary, the numbers below indicate the percentage Trump would receive in Georgia among black voters against each Democrat listed :

against Biden 7.1%

against Sanders 7.7%

against Warren 8.7%

against Buttigieg 10.0%

against Harris 10.0%

The numbers for the last two Democrats, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris, jumped out at me …

Yes, it appears it’s the same number for Buttigieg, who’s gay and for Harris, who is the only black candidate polled here. Furthermore, the exact breakdown among black voters in Georgia is:

Pete Buttigieg 76.5% — Donald Trump 10.0%

Kamala Harris 76.7% — Donald Trump 10.0%

And, if we want to go down even further into the weeds, the raw vote counts are:

Pete Buttigieg 237 — Donald Trump 31

Kamala Harris 237 — Donald Trump 31

Exactly the same ! (The slight difference in the percentage numbers is because the “don’t know/undecided” raw numbers are ever so slightly different; also, please keep in mind that the overall number of undecided voters is higher for the less “high-profile” candidates like Buttigieg versus, for example, Joe Biden in this poll.)

So, imho, a pretty clear and unambiguous repudiation of the proposition that black voters have any sort of problem voting for Pete Buttigieg in a general election (and keep in mind, with this poll we’re looking not just at African-American voters, but southern African-American voters at that).