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Q: What does "Their showing of 55 percent of eligible voters outpaced the national turnout rate by 6 percentage points. " mean?



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One out of every four voters in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Georgia — states with significant shares of electoral votes — is a woman of color. In the 2018 congressional midterm elections, black females helped drive the so-called "blue wave" of Democratic votes, flipping the U.S. House of Representatives away from Republican control. Their showing of 55 percent of eligible voters outpaced the national turnout rate by 6 percentage points.

But as a diverse group of women gathered this week in Miami to watch the Democratic debates and mark the official kickoff of election season, another number could not be ignored. In 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lost Florida — and its critical 29 electoral votes — to Trump by just 112,000 popular votes. Black voter turnout in Florida dropped more than 3 percentage points in 2016 from the previous presidential election in 2012, part of an overall nationwide decline in voter turnout among African-Americans and Latinos in that election.

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