According to the last survey, the competition for the success of Congresmen, Dwight Evans, is widely open, and voters from Philadelphia are interested in a potential candidate who has never applied for the office and has not yet started the race.
After receiving biographical information about the candidates of 18% surveyed by voters, he stated that he would vote for Dr. Ala StanfordAccording to a survey conducted at the beginning of August for the Black Leadership Pennsylvania (BLPA) group.
Stanford is a pediatric surgeon and a PENN professor, who gained recognition for bringing Covid tests to black inhabitants during a pandemic. She did not announce her candidacy, but according to the run, she is actively preparing for the run Media reports and people involved in the local political scene. She did not answer the request for comment.
Senator of State Sharif Street and State Rep. Chris Rabb received 17% in the survey, and the state representative Morgan Cephas received 9% after the voters listened to the biography, according to the survey. A quarter of the respondents remained indecisive.
The results emphasize the openness of the third Congress District Race and many opportunities to shape their public characters before the democratic basis of the next spring, said the executive director of Blpa Kyle Anderson.
“It seems that there are initial favorites, it is still really early. Whoever can tell their story in a fascinating way and can talk about problems that people indicated that they care about convincingly, he has a chance,” he said.
Priorities contradictory
CEPHAS, Rabb and Street officially announced their candidate, just like the Professor of the Temple University Karl Morris, health doctor Jefferson David Oxman and two others.
All candidates are democrats. The Evans district is considered the most democratic domestic district in the country, and the democratic base in May is to effectively decide about the winner of the race.
When the voters were initially asked who they supported before the biographies were mentioned, the street led from 15% of voters, followed by Stanford and a member of the Isaiah Thomas council at 7%, Rabb at 6% and a member of the council of Katherine Gilmore Richardson at 5%. Just over half of the respondents were undecided.
Looking at decisive voters, Street tried best with black inhabitants, receiving 22% of their support compared to 4% among the whites. In general, the street supporters were older, black, long -term residents of Philadelphia, who prioritize inexpensive apartments, according to the summary of BLPA’s findings.
Rabb spoke to younger, white, educated liberals in college focused on educational issues, and Stanford drew support in various demographic lines, but especially from men, LGBTQ+ voters and black house owners who prioritize opposition to President Donald Trump.
The survey delved into the question of whether Democrats should spend time and campaign resources attacking Trump or focusing on matters related to the wallet or other issues, controversial problem Among the activists on the left, political agents and selected officials.
About 31% of voters stated that the priority of the next third district of the Congressmisks should be “opposing Donald Trump and his magician program.” Other popular elections consisted in social security and Medicare (23%), reduction of crime and violence (23%), the creation of inexpensive apartments (21%) and improvement of public schools (20%).
Dissatisfaction, apathy among black voters
Anderson said that BLPA’s interest in the survey order was not about the home race, but more about the identification of the fears of black voters to inform about future efforts, improving the attendance of voters in the city and influenced the priorities of candidates applying for the office.
In November last year, the Democrats deteriorated, and Trump was doing better in most black districts in the city than in 2020, and the black districts had one of the lowest indicators of voter attendance, voters, Inquirer reported.
“In 2024, we found that most of the messages resulting from many campaigns were not necessarily adapted to what black voters care for, and I think we saw it in lower frequency numbers, certainly in Philadelphia,” said Anderson.
“It is probably wise for anyone who develops rules or platforms, considers these data as an example of things they may want to focus,” he said.
He said that black voters largely focus on the same issues on which voters generally care, as well as the future of social security.
In addition to national problems, the study asked about the city’s condition. The participation of voters who stated that they were dissatisfied with the direction of Philadelphia increased to 58% from 55% a year earlier. Only 36% stated that they were satisfied in the latest survey.
The most significant reasons that they gave their dissatisfaction were crimes (25%), destitute leadership of public officials (14%) and budget fears (12%). Blpa said that dissatisfaction increased more among black voters than white, and especially among black inhabitants under 50 years of age.
When asked about urban services, 44% of voters stated that they remained the same in the last two years, and 35% stated that it worsened and 16% records improvement. Anderson noticed that the survey was conducted a few weeks after an eight -day strike by sanitary workers and other city employees, which led to the accumulation of garbage on the streets.
The interviewers talked from 584 probably registered voters in Philadelphia from 6 to 12 August.
Pouring money for elections
Black Leadership Pennsylvania is 501 (c) 4, a type of non -profit organization, sometimes called Dark Money group, because it is not required to disclose its founders. Anderson said that colleagues “largely based on Pennsylvania.”
He said that the group was founded last year by the leader of the Labor Party Ryan Boyer, lobbyist Joseph Hill and other people from the business and work community. Boyer is a close ally of the mayor of Cherelle Parker and a politically powerful head of the Building and Construction Trades Council council, while Hill was in Parker’s transition team and previously worked for former US senator Bob Casey.
It seems that the organization has close connections with the Black Leadership PAC, a committee of political activities based in Philadelphia. As a great Pac, it can raise unlimited donations from corporations, relationships and other colleagues and cannot coordinate with candidates and campaigns.
Last year, Super Pac received $ 1.2 million, almost all of the Black Leadership Pennsylvania, according to the Federal Campaign Finance Records. He spent funds for the acquisition of voters, telephone conversations, advertising and other expenses, mainly to support the presidential race of Kamala Harris.
Anderson said he was not involved in PAC. He focuses on establishing the continuous presence of BLPA in black communities, first in Philadelphia and ultimately other cities of Pennsylvania, in theory that “there is no election cycle,” said Anderson.
He said that the members of the group participated in social events and would have a great opening of their office in Germantown next month. The space will be available to the employ of the community and provide residents with information on elections and programs related to elections.
“When it was time for people to start knocking on the door, get people to go out and vote, they will not be people they saw for the first time. They will be people with whom they got involved in their communities,” he said. “And our hope is to duplicate it throughout the state.”
