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Gave the most during the election, a historic election, 2020 and have gotten the least. if you look at voting rights, so far nothing. police reform, so far nothing. you look at some of the student loan stuff, very little. so what was motivating african american voters left, right and otherwise, were that somebody was going to come to our rescue. the day to day reality for black folks hasn't improved, in fact, because of inflation and other things gotten worse, so you're starting to see that disappointment factor set in. >> do you think it will change the voting patterns? >> i think that it may...

Many factors affect the decision of whether or not to vote in an election: the decision is mostly about motivation, interest in politics and sense of duty.

Not always faced partisan opposition. joining us now, nbc news's national political correspondent, steve kornacki. steve, great to see you. how are voting patterns for supreme court nominees changed over the years? >> jose, it's an interesting story here going back, i would say, about 40 years. let's just show you here. these are the votes for every supreme court justice that came to the floor, every nomination that came to the floor going back to sandra day o'connor in '81. the way it used to be, you would occasional have big fights. this is the most famous of all time. robert bork, ronald re...

Think it just kind of shows that what a lot of these voting laws have done, especially in georgia, is they looked at the voting patterns that changed in 2020 and they saw how what was once, you know, a law that was passed in 2005 to allow no excuse absentee voting by mail for more rural republican voters had suddenly been embraced by democratic voters, more in urban areas, so this new proposal by the top republican in the senate in georgia is looking to get rid of those dropboxes completely in another way to kind of further limit the absentee voting that has been more embraced by democrats. i'...

There any doubt in your mind that whomever biden select , if that's the group is selecting from i mean, they might be perfectly great people personally, but let's talk about a judicial outlookudicd that they will be a rubber stamp for whatever the hard left wants. >> i think that's highlyi likely. i was looking back to lawyers opinions and the interesting thing to me iss i'm not sure it's actually going to make that much difference in the voting patterns maybe in thee the framework or, you know, the tone of the opinion. but on really every singleio issue down the line abortion, affirmative act...