Without the Inner City 'Give me Free Stuff' vote, Could Democrats get elected to anything?

Question

"It's no surprise for Democrats to lose white men and evangelicals. But in this election, we also lost white women, married people, couples with children, high school graduates, college graduates, people over 30, and, by our estimate, voters in every annual household income category above $40,000. Our coalition consisted of high school dropouts and those with postgraduate educations (99% of the Universtiy Proff's). That coalition is not the foundation for building a durable Democratic majority."


"Of America's 3,114 counties, Bush won 2,532 -- or 81.1 percent -- covering 78 percent of our country's land mass. In only 162 of those counties -- just over 6 percent -- was Bush's margin of victory less than 5 points. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Bush won 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties -- Kerry won just three."

--------Al From is founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council. Bruce Reed is president of the DLC

http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=127&subid=173&contentid=253054

Answer 1

See, if you could just exterminate the people who don't agree with your opinions, your side could always win.

Oh, wait...that's been tried before. In 1919 in Russia, in the 1930s in Germany...in Cambodia.

Answer 2

I'm beginning to wonder if you actually read the answers to your questions, or if you just like to bait people.... Either way, the answer is simple. People always go with the money. The Republicans appeal to the wealthy by giving tax breaks and protecting retirement income. The Dems appeal to lower class families through social programs. So what? Any way you look at it, politicians are 'buying' thier votes. Is there a better reason than money to declare a party loyalty? If your party is protecting your financial stability, it's a given that you will vote for them.

Answer 3

Just about everything you wrote is utter dog-doo.

Not everyone who lives in inner cities is on welfare (which I assume is what you're talking about).

All too few vote.

It's simply not true that no white men, white women, married people, couples with children, high school grads, college grads, people over 30, or people who make more than $40,000/yr voted Democrat last election.

In case you didn't notice, dems won majorities in both houses of Congress last year.

The Republicans cheated a LOT in the last presidential election, but even so, the stats you cite are simply not true.

On the whole, by and large, it's rural areas that are "red" and urban that are "blue."

Given that almost everyone realizes how horrible Bush is, and few are wild about Republicans in general, what you say is utter balderdash.

Do you think by posting such garbage people will vote Republican?

Wish on.

Answer 4

Fact is that the democrat party keeps the inner city poor so that democrat candidates can tell them how much good they are going to do for the poor. What they don't tell the poor is that in order for them to give more to the poor, they have to take more from the poor. It happens all the time. If the poor would open their eyes and look at exactly who was stealing what little money they have, the poor would never vote for another democrat again.

So in a round about way of answering your question, the only thing democrats could get elected for is the clown of the election. They are a joke and should be thoroughly exposed for the clowns they are.

Answer 5

Republicans are about (for the most part) running the country.
Democrats are about running our lives.

Democrats are obsessed with power and control over peoples' lives--the hallmark of a totalitarianist. Left unchecked, the Dems in Congress, along with Gore, Hillary, Obama, or Edwards, would have this country looking more like Cuba or the old Soviet Union than the free, capitalist society it is now.

Answer 6

Without the Investor Class "give me special privilieges" campaign contributions, could Republicans ever raise the money to run for office?

(It takes a lot more than owning some mutual funds to qualify for membership in the Investor Class. If your income is based on your labor, you are not a member. If your investments derive from income based on your labor, you are not a member. If people in your immediate family depend on their own labor for income, you are not a member. Membership is restricted to approximately the wealthiest 0.5% of Americans; that's about one out of every 200 people and probably nobody you know.)

Answer 7

Of course not, they keep promising these people more government assistance, whereas the Republicans try to put a limit on the amount of time you can spend on government assistance. It has become a crutch for some people, and they don't want to have to get off their butts and get a job to support their family.

Answer 8

They are telling you we want free stuff? We want jobs and education.

The fact that land mass is more valued than human dignity says it all.

Answer 9

get a clue already
without the give me more money crowd of corporate hucksters and recipients of corporate welfare like Bechtel, Blackwater, and let's not forget Neal Bush between his savings and loan debacle and now receiving money from the education fund the neo-con criminals you so like to emulate would be languishing in a well deserved hell of their own making.

Answer 10

as bad as the 'inner city' is about wanting 'free stuff' the worst is the middle class entitlements! think if a politician tried to rescind or even privatize social security what the uproar would be. the unions are another horrid example of unwarranted but highly loudly expected gimme's.