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Members of America’s LGBTQ+ community vote. In big numbers.
In the 2020 presidential election, 81% of them cast ballots. That high engagement reflects what the Pew Research Center found in 2013: “In the most comprehensive political survey of LGBTQ+ Americans ever conducted,” writes scholar Dorian Rhea Debussy, researchers found that “the vast majority of respondents – 85% – ‘always’ or ‘nearly always’ voted, compared with roughly a third of the general population.”
Debussy, a scholar of LGBTQ+ politics and policy at The Ohio State University, says that with such high political participation, LGBTQ+ voters could play an “outsize role” in the outcome of the presidential race.
That’s because “past polling data indicates that the LGBTQ+ community will likely back Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump by strong margins in four of the most likely tipping-point states – that is, the swing states with enough electoral votes to tip the entire election for one candidate,” writes Debussy. And just in case you’ve been on a news boycott for the past few months, those states are Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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Naomi Schalit
US Politics Editor, Boston
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LGBTQ+ voters lean heavily Democratic, and they tend to turn out in high numbers.
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Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Ohio State University
LGBTQ+ voters make up a relatively small percentage of the American electorate. But they’re poised to play an outsize role in the
‘tipping-point’ states most likely to decide the election.
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