Mr Khan said:
thranx said:
Mr Khan said:
C'mon, Republicans got 3/5ths of the white vote, more if you look further up the age brackets, and the three drums that they really focused on where about scary foreigners and immigrants. Poorer whites, who would have economic reason to vote democrat, tend even further towards Republicans.
So much of the Republican party's strength these days is race-based, just that no-one (even most of the folks voting with such motivations) wants to admit it because no one likes to think they're racist, for the most part.
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“Well, let’s just ask ourselves if we look back over history when the Congress was controlled by the Democrats for 40 consecutive years. If we look at the result of that control what has happened in black America?
We saw greater poverty. If we take the statistics from 1970s to the 21st century, what we see very clearly is that poverty’s gone from 11 percent to 15 percent. These are classic examples that the policies of the left have not worked.
“I will tell you that if I have an F on the NAACP’s scorecard, it’s because I believe that progress has to be made, and the government is not the answer for progress.”
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And yet Republicans are trying to make it even worse for black folks: those welfare programs have a positive impact on lifting people out of poverty. The rate would be much higher still if Republicans had their way. They're also targeting them disproportionately with pointless voter-ID laws, with privatized prison systems, and with anti-drug laws.
Blessedly few enough black people are stupid enough to believe that just because the Democrats haven't had the best track record, that that means the Republicans wouldn't be far worse.
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If we have enacted these policies, and the rate has gone up wouldn't you say the policies made it worse? The republicans had their way first, than the dems changed things, and it got worse.
