How Trump Nod Could Cause Record Muslim-American Voter Turnout

How Trump Nod Could Cause Record Muslim-American Voter Turnout

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-trump-nod-could-cause-record-muslim-american-voter-turnout-n615036

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"What this election has done more than any other election is that it's put Muslim-Americans in this category of non-whites. Muslim Americans are not only seeing themselves as being discriminated against but developing a group conscious with Latinos, blacks and the LGBT community" — groups who overwhelmingly vote Democratic — "that sees themselves as being marginalized," said Jamal, the Princeton politics professor.

Muslims have previously been the least likely faith group to be politically engaged, according to the nonpartisan Institute for Social and Policy Understanding. A recent study found only 60 percent of Muslims who said they could legally vote were registered to do so, compared to a combined 86 percent of Jews, Catholics and Protestants.

But could Muslim Americans — who represent approximately 1 percent of the population in the U.S. — make a difference?

Robert McCaw, the Council on American-Islamic Relation's government affairs director, noted Muslim Americans are concentrated in several battleground states, like Ohio, Virginia and Florida.



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