Why Are Most Felons Democrats?

Question

And why do Democrats want to give voting rights to felons?

Democrats want felons to vote:
http://asp.usatoday.com/community/utils/idmap/12751778.story

To LadySnowbird:

"Ex-felon" is a made up term. It has no meaning. Once a person is convicted of a felony that person is a convicted felon for life.

However, a felony conviction can be removed by a pardon. For example when Clinton was president, he pardoned many of his own friends. He also pardoned a relative.

"Felon. n. Someone who was convicted of a felony. "
http://www.legal-explanations.com/definitions/felon.htm

Answer 1

First, we need to establish that felons are, in fact, overwhelmingly democrats.

Here is probably the most definitive study on the subject:

http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/papers/manza.pdf

The authors are liberals in favor of granting felons the right to vote and call them "The Truly Disenfranchised".

From the paper:

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From Table 1B

Estimated Felon Vote for Democratic Presidential Candidate

National

1972 71.6%
1976 86.6%
1980 73.0%
1984 76.3%
1988 76.3%
1992 85.9%
1996 92.8%

If we average these numbers we find that felons are over 80% Democrat.

Also we can look at felon demographics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/vfluc.pdf

From this report we learn the following about the violent felon population of the U.S.:

41% of violent felons are black
30% of violent felons are Hispanic
26% of violent felons are white

We can also look at this report on total felons (including non-violent crimes such as drug related and driving related crimes) for 2002:

http://ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fdluc02.pdf

43% of the total number of felons are black
24% of the total number of felons are Hispanic
31% of the total number of felons are white

We can assume that close to 100% of blacks will be Democrats (the idea of any black republicans in prison is actually kind of funny).

About 70% of Hispanics will be Democrats.

About 60% of whites in prison are likely to be Democrats.

If we apply these percentages we arrive at about 78% Democrat for violent felons and
79% Democrat for total felons, so they are roughly equivalent measures to the estimated average of 80% democrat felons derived from the paper by Manza, Uggen, and Britton.

Yes, criminals are mostly Democrats.

To be fair, this is not the same as saying "most Democrats are felons" - that would be an untrue statement. But we can say that Democrats are much, much more likely to murder, rob, and assault their fellow Americans than Republicans.

We can even go further with this analysis...

Democrats will murder about 13,430 of the 17,000 Americans that are likely to be murdered next year.

Now that we have established that most felons are Democrats...
Let's talk about the "Why" part.

The heart of the problem with Democrats is their lack of personal morality. Liberals and Democrats substitute a "public morality" for "a personal inner morality". What I mean by that is that Liberals and Democrats associate being a liberal and being a Democrat with being moral, i.e. "If I believe in Global Warming, I am a good person. If I believe that white people are evil, especially white males, then I am a moral person. If I vote for other liberal Democrats, I am moral. If I belong to Green Peace, I am a moral person. etc." It doesn't matter to them what they do in their own personal lives and they don't judge other liberal democrats for the things they do in their personal lives. You can be a molester of young male congressional pages and interns... and in you are a liberal that is A-OK as long as you tow the liberal line. Liberals can be personally very miserly with charitable giving (They are!), but feel they are really very generous people because they are liberals and liberals give a lot of the government's money (other people's money) away. In other words as a liberal you can steal, cheat, lie, cheat on your spouse, have gay sex, assault someone, have sex with a mule, etc., as long as you continue to support liberal causes then you are still a moral person.

Conservatives believe what they do as an individual is what makes you moral or immoral. Ultimately, it does not matter what you believe or what you give lip-service, too... it matters what you do. They believe their actions should reflect their beliefs. Conservative republicans may oppose governmental handouts, but are personally very generous with giving their own time and their own money to those in need, because they believe in personal charity. Conservatives have a certain code of behavior and morality that they abide by. That is why conservative leaders who talk of personal morality and engage in immoral behavior are finished as a leader of conservative Republicans (when Democrats do something immoral, they are excused, celebrated, and made head of a committee or Senate Majority Leader, etc.).

There is a certain segment of the Democrat party that has rejected the values and morals that Republicans hold dear. And without those values they have nothing to keep them from murdering someone when they feel like it... and they end up in prison.

As to the second part of your question, namely
"Why do Democrats want to give voting rights to felons?"

The answer is that the Democrat leadership wants to give felons the right to vote for the same reason that they want illegals to vote - they need them to win elections. One dirty little secret the Democrat leadership knows is they have not won a majority of the white vote for President since 1964 (Why would anyone want to vote for a party that purposely passes laws that discriminate against you on the basis of your race and denies you equal protection under the law and robs you of your civil rights?). They need the criminal vote and the illegal vote (as well as the dead vote and the fraudulent vote) to win elections.

Answer 2

Cus felons can't legally vote but like the govenor of WA state which is a democrat likes to cheat by having ppl who are dead or a felon vote, Lol. i guess the illegal voters are the most popular ones. Hell you can vote and not even know it now a days. Personally i don't think felons can vote considering they aren't making the right decisions now by being a felon in the first place.

Answer 3

If you read the article referenced it says, they want to give EX felons the right to vote. There is a BIG difference between that and felons. If you are going to reference an article, you should at least read it and reference it correctly.

I didn't see anywhere in the article you referenced, anything about Democrat or Republican Felons? Where did you get the idea :"Most Felons are Democrats"?

I don't think they ask them when booking them into jail, what political party?

Answer 4

Because it takes a felon to know one. So the felons recognize who the real criminal is and votes against them !!! Bush is a lying , murdering thief, that tries to hide behind the faith of the false religious faction, that points out the breaking of the 10 commandments but comfortably forgets the they themselves are breaking one, : Judge not least ye be judged. The Clinton's however flawed are still better than the Anti Christ Bush himself !!!

Mouth of the south. Go back to the books. Bush was President when 911 happened, not Clinton .Just like a Republican to blame the dems for there own screw up and lies. Good try to sneak it past us. Maybe you should run for the GOP. Your as good as any other Candidate !!!

Answer 5

I don't understand how many of the answers here are questions.
Instead of defending Democrats, they all seem to have decided to attack Republicans.
I haven't the foggiest idea how that makes sense...
They may as well admit that they are felons.

Most Felons are Democrats because they share a similar logic: It is ok to violate the rights of others if it leads to personal gain.
Oddly, most poor people, most uneducated, most drug abusers, and (contrary to the opinion of some of the answerers here) most sex offenders are Democrats.

Democrats want to give voting rights to felons because they believe that freedom comes without responsibility.

This is also the same reason that most felons are Democrats.

They have no understanding of responsibility, rule of law, and morality. That is why they lie, cheat, and steal to promote their skewed ideology.

Democrats think that "fair" means that everyone gets the same.
"Fair" truly means that people get what they deserve.

Answer 6

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


Article 25: Every citizen shall have the right and the opportunity, without any of the distinctions mentioned in Article 2 and without unreasonable restrictions:
(a) To take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
(b) To vote and to be elected at genuine periodic elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret ballot, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of the electors;
(c) To have access, on general terms of equality, to public service in his country.

Answer 7

Difficult to answer that question, considering you never established the underlying contention. You merely pose it as a question, as if to suggest it's common knowledge.

I will acknowledge, however, that the reason felons still cannot vote is because of political implications. Alabama Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors even admitted "we're opposed to [restoring voting rights] because felons don't tend to vote Republican." Which, if you think about it, is a very illogical method of drawing any conclusion.

Why should we allow ex-felons to vote? Well, maybe because the laws prohibiting them from doing so were originally intended to purge African Americans from the voting booths, even ones with very limited criminal histories. Furthermore, the standard response must be given: they have paid their debts to society. Rehabilitation is the true purpose of a criminal justice system, or at least it should be, and we teach our populous that voting is responsible behavior. I fail to see any reasonable argument against it.

Answer 8

The real felons are in the white house, one of the key player is Karl Rove. The election was stolen in 2000 & 2004 with the help of the electronic voting machine ( Diebold) It is known that votes can be change with a few keystrokes. The makers of the machine gave lots of money to the republican party. Listen to www.blogtalkradio.com/2012

Answer 9

who else is gonna vote for them. True Americans won't. Clinton was in office when 9/11 went down and he just turned a deaf ear to everything even though he was told about it in advance. That's what chaffed my a**. It wasn't a surprise. He knew it was coming and did nothing about it. That's why I have no respect for Democrats. They could care less about America's future. They just want do deal with the here and now. Blame the Republicans for cleaning up their mess they made.

Answer 10

very nice question!!! some one give this guy a cookie

Democrats are bleeding heart liberals -i.e- they want to give criminals voting rights its not thier fault they are in jail.

Democrats feel if you kill 5 ppl and then claim you have a diease
you should'nt go to jail you sould get wel fare for the rest of your life :D


lol
"democrats on the other hand are the masters of making up philosophies that justify their sins.", itofine

very nice lol great way to put it

Jail is a liberal invention because every time some one did something agaisnt the law the conservatives would rather hang them shoot them w/e than pay for them to sit in a cell for the rest of their lives.

Answer 11

They also want illegals and the dead to vote. They know that most of them will be managed by democrat vote gatherers. They tried to deny the vote to active duty veterans when they tried to engineer/steal the Florida recount.

Most felons are minorities and lower class where the democrats are stronger.