Why should blacks join either party? Useally someone claims to be either a democrat or republican because he identifies more with one of the party’s platforms than the other.
Usually they don't identify much with either party, but slightly more than the other.
In other countries though, they actually have real choice. They've even given it a name, it's called "democracy".
Actually most of us are democrats.
I would doubt most are Democrats.
Most vote Democrat, that's different to being a Democrat.
You look at countries with positive voting, ie, Proportional Representation and you see how many people even vote for the main parties.
Germany it's 53.4% of people voted for the main two parties.
Belgium it's 31.9%
Denmark it's 47.4%
Finland it's 38.7%
It's very hard to find a place with PR where the two main parties do very well under fair elections.
If the US had PR, potentially half the people who vote for them now would vote for someone else. People vote negatively.
Germany also votes like the US, FPTP, on the same day, and gained 61% of the vote. FPTP leads to the main parties doing better because people vote negatively. They vote for who they DON'T WANT to get into power.
The number of voters doesn't imply the number of people who are "Democrats" or "Republicans". What makes someone a Democrat in the first place?
If they don't work for the party, and just vote once every 2 or 4 years, does that make them a Democrat?
It's kind of ridiculous.