Felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat, do democrats promote criminal behavior to lure more voters?

Question

Highlights on the New book by John Lott: Freedomnomics he points out flaws in previous ways of thinking:

Women shouldn't vote: "What changed ... that explains the growth of government? The answer is women's suffrage."

Fox News Channel isn't conservative: "Even employees of Fox News, which is widely regarded as a conservative channel, donate 81 percent of their contributions to Democrats."

Public schools are government re-education camps: "(P)ublic education was actually designed to spread government-approved values."

Nothing good has come from abortion: "(A)bortion, in fact, increases crime."

Felons vote Democrat: "Remarkably, it looks as if virtually all felons are Democrats."

Lott shows that there are pretty clear answers to what lowers the crime rate, what increases the crime rate and what doesn't have any effect at all. Despite their popularity as explanations for the remarkable drop in crime in the '90s, the aging of the population etc...

What did work was higher arrest and conviction rates, concealed-carry laws and the reinstitution of the death penalty. "Generally, the studies found," Lott writes, "that each execution saved the lives of roughly 15 to 18 potential murder victims." So basically, there's a much bigger death penalty for having no death penalty
In addition to losing their reputations, their inheritances and generally their spouses, according to Lott, wealthy felons also earn less money post-conviction than poor defendants. Not relative to their prior salaries, but in direct comparison. "Amazingly," Lott says, "after controlling for a variety of social and demographic factors, wealthier ex–convicts on average earn a lower salary after their conviction than poorer ex-convicts."

Let's hope so. Felons are usually Democrats. As Lott notes: "Michael Milken, Martha Stewart and Leona Helmsley share something in common besides being convicted felons – they are all Democrats.

I believe this point was subtly highlighted when Willie Horton told the press in 1988 that of course he supported Michael Dukakis for president. "According to academic studies," Lott says, "from 1972 to 1996, on average, 80 percent of felons would have voted Democratic. An overwhelming 93 percent ostensibly would have voted for Bill Clinton in 1996."

This is not because, as you might imagine, blacks have high crime rates and also happen to be overwhelmingly Democratic. Lott compares the voting patterns of felons and non-felons, controlling for race, age, education level, religious habits, employment, age and country of residence. Wholly apart from all these factors, felons were still more likely to vote Democratic. Indeed, in the 2004 election, Lott says, felons in Washington state "voted exclusively for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry."


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Answer 1

Ron Paul 2008.


(Felons only lose their right to vote in certain states.O

Answer 2

Felons are, in fact not allowed to vote, by law, in any elections. If they are, someone is not checking up on registrations.
Legalized abortions actually did lead to a lower crime rate in the nineties than what was expected, by limiting the number of unwanted, low-income babies that would have been more likely to turn to crime as adults. This is of course, conjecture, not actual fact as there is no control group to measure by.
Public schools may be government education camps, but they are hardly re-education camps because to re-educate means to educate again.
Crime ususally increases in the summer, as does the sale of ice cream. Does this mean that selling ice cream increases crime?

Answer 3

it rather is obvious. Felons might vote dem through fact the dems choose for to pass basic on them and additionally the two dems and felons hate usa. Libs are afraid to settle for the certainty that evil exists contained in the international if it is not George Bush.

Answer 4

Criminal Record Search Database : http://www.SearchVerifyInfo.com/Official

Answer 5

I guess you heard felons are no longer given the right to vote.
Do Dem's promote criminal behaviour? Well. I think it is a bi partisan effort. Woman's rights u may get a fuss from me so as a woman I shall abstain.
You got issues. I read them . Thanks for the curious post.

Answer 6

[JURIST] The Florida Board of Executive Clemency [official website] on Thursday voted 3-1 to change the Rules of Executive Clemency [PDF text] so that non-violent felons will automatically have their civil rights restored upon release from prison, and released violent offenders can have theirs.... [more]


Guess they can vote again in Florida.......

Answer 7

I'm not sure if it's immaturity or stupidity that causes Republicans to so repeatedly and intentionally refer to the "Democrat Party" [sic] instead of the "Democratic Party." In either case, it's idiotic and it's a dishonorable way to conduct public discourse.

It's also dishonorable to lie. But since the Republicans can't win on the issues (Americans are overwhelmingly progressive on healthcare, the economy, and any number of issues), they create wedge issues, they lie, and they use playground politics to harm our democracy while benefiting their own cause.

To the person who posted this "question:" you should be ashamed.

Answer 8

why do conservatives have to put out propaganda to fight what other people have said...

this is clearly nothing more than a desperate attempt to combat Levin's "Feakonomics," which did use actual economic data too... just as conservatives had to put out a movie to combat "Fahrenheit 9-11"

although I would be curious how he gets some of his info, mainly that Fox News employees donate 81 percent to dems...

Answer 9

Felons, Terrorists, and illegals are heavyly in favor of Democrats

Answer 10

Felons can vote? Must be a Yankee thing.