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Why are felons...
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 8:47 pm
by Nightshade
...more likely to be democrats?
Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe seems to think so.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has granted voting rights to as many as 60,000 convicted felons just in time for them to register to vote, nearly five times more than previously reported and enough to win the state for his long-time friend, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Now, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned that McAuliffe — who managed Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign — churned out five times as many letters before the registration deadline than publicly claimed.
Virginia’s recent political history has seen multiple races that were decided by tiny margins. The 2014 U.S. Senate race, for example, was decided by only 17,000 votes, while the attorney general’s race came down to a mere 165 votes.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/06/exclu ... -election/
Re: Why are felons...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:55 am
by callmeslick
in Virginia, felons are overwhelmingly, out of all sensible proportion, African American, thanks to decades of systemic racism.
Re: Why are felons...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:45 am
by Nightshade
callmeslick wrote:in Virginia, felons are overwhelmingly, out of all sensible proportion, African American, thanks to decades of systemic racism.
I'm sure they're all wrongly convicted innocents.
Re: Why are felons...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:11 pm
by Ferno
I dunno...
I guess felons being likely to vote democrat is about as solid as ice cream sales causing shark attacks.
Re: Why are felons...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:06 pm
by callmeslick
Nightshade wrote:callmeslick wrote:in Virginia, felons are overwhelmingly, out of all sensible proportion, African American, thanks to decades of systemic racism.
I'm sure they're all wrongly convicted innocents.
didn't read what I said. They might well be validly convicted as misdemeanors, which would have been the case were they white. Felons? A little shakier, but it's the disparity of offered plea deals that has caused the problems in Virginia, and it's been on the table for over a decade. That you have no clue what you're babbling about is evidence of why I'd not wade into something similar in Texas........