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Republicans may want to suppress their own efforts. well, we'll see how these numbers look out. in 2012, a year ago, for the first time in that election, black voter turnout passed that of white, 66.2% of eligible black voters cast ballots. 64.1 non-hispanic whites cast ballots. the percentage of turnout was better. the old days of doing registration so blacks could catch up to whites because of past history has succeeded to a point. the only person who did a better point of black voter registration was frank rizzo in philadelphia. the black felt so much he was anti-their interesting they went...

Take a look at the 2012 election turnout numbers, which really is inspiring. this is the first time this has ever happened in a census. you see. here is the reason why the republicans may want to suppress their own efforts. well, we'll see how these numbers look out. in 2012, a year ago, for the first time in that election, black voter turnout passed that of white, 66.2% of eligible black voters cast ballots. 64.1 non-hispanic whites cast ballots. the percentage of turnout was better. the old days of doing registration so blacks could catch up to whites because of past history has succeeded to...

Innovation of allowing registration during the early voting period. all of those mechanisms were used more heavily by african-american voters. and in fact, president obama carried north carolina in 2008. not on election day, but during the early voting period. >> well, let me look at this, gene. the only good news here is in the 2012 election for the first time in census history, black voters turned out over whites. 66.2% cast ballots this past year. 64.1% of eligible non-hvrpz whites cast ballots. that's down from 66%. when there is an african-american candidate for president, the black perce...

And north carolina's tremendous innovation of allowing registration during the early voting period. all of those mechanisms were used more heavily by african-american voters and in fact president obama carried north carolina in 2008 not on election day, but during the early voting period. >> well, let me look at this, jean, the only good news here, is in the 2012 election, for the first time in census history, black voters passed on whites -- 66.2 of eligible black voters cast ballots, up from 64.7 in 2008. 61.4% -- down from 1996. at least in a presidential year, when there is an african-amer...