Who do you support for U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2010?

OMTE wrote:

<quoted text>Oh hush. I wasn't even talking to you. I was simply sayin that I was tired of talking about race. It all that anybody's been talking about and no one needs race baiters like him to keep it going. There are more important things to discuss than race. Oh and how do you think I'm leftie? What is your reasoning for calling me that?

Aggie23 wrote:

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Let's pay attention to that last line again:
"WHILE OTHERS ARGUED IT MERELY REFLECTED HIS LIBERTARIAN ECONOMIC BELIEFS." - DUH.
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The Myth of ‘the Southern Strategy
By CLAY RISEN
Everyone knows that race has long played a decisive role in Southern electoral politics. From the end of Reconstruction until the beginning of the civil rights era, the story goes, the national Democratic Party made room for segregationist members — and as a result dominated the South. But in the 50s and 60s, Democrats embraced the civil rights movement, costing them the white Southern vote. Meanwhile, the Republican Party successfully wooed disaffected white racists with a “Southern strategy” that championed “states’ rights.”
It’s an easy story to believe, but this year two political scientists called it into question. In their book “The End of Southern Exceptionalism,” Richard Johnston of the University of Pennsylvania and Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin argue that the shift in the South from Democratic to Republican was overwhelmingly a question not of race but of economic growth. In the postwar era, they note, the South transformed itself from a backward region to an engine of the national economy, giving rise to a sizable new wealthy suburban class. This class, not surprisingly, began to vote for the party that best represented its economic interests: the G.O.P. Working-class whites, however — and here’s the surprise — even those in areas with large black populations, stayed loyal to the Democrats.(This was true until the 90s, when the nation as a whole turned rightward in Congressional voting.)
The two scholars support their claim with an extensive survey of election returns and voter surveys. To give just one example: in the 50s, among Southerners in the low-income tercile, 43 percent voted for Republican Presidential candidates, while in the high-income tercile, 53 percent voted Republican; by the 80s, those figures were 51 percent and 77 percent, respectively. Wealthy Southerners shifted rightward in droves but poorer ones didn’t.
To be sure, Shafer says, many whites in the South aggressively opposed liberal Democrats on race issues.“But when folks went to the polling booths,” he says,“they didn’t shoot off their own toes. They voted by their economic preferences, not racial preferences.” Shafer says these results should give liberals hope.“If Southern politics is about class and not race,” he says,“then they can get it back.”

Synergy wrote:

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Whatsamatta? You can't handle the truth. I've touched a nerve. It's okay for you to call names and insult over and over, but when it's handed back, you scream like a little girl. You don't like the message so you attack the messenger. Typical left wing lunatic union thug. Take it to the chaplain, partner, because I don't care.

Synergy wrote:

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I "think" he was replying to one of Jeb's posts. You must admit, race is front and center in the news right now. This administration and the media are working overtime on it.

OMTE wrote:

<quoted text>Oh hush. I wasn't even talking to you. I was simply sayin that I was tired of talking about race. It all that anybody's been talking about and no one needs race baiters like him to keep it going. There are more important things to discuss than race. Oh and how do you think I'm leftie? What is your reasoning for calling me that?

Informed Opinion wrote:

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Now, now, that Thorazine is on the way. We'll ask the nice nurse to open up another Medicaid bed for you at a "less secure" facility as soon as we can.

OMTE wrote:

This is a bill that all americans should get behind.
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/may-2...

Synergy wrote:

<quoted text>Agreed. He considers himself a "real" American. What a joke.

OMTE wrote:

Here's what the ICE Council President had to say about the amnesty bill that is in the House. It's funny how Washington makes out like these people are so peaceful and are only here to work. Yeah right. They are criminals. Remember ICE is the only ones allowed to enforce any immigration laws. They know what's going on.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/201...

Aggie23 wrote:

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The content of most of your posts and which posters you support on here make it rather obvious which
party you support. I will admit that given your strong pro-life stance and your position on immigration, your continued support of the Democratic party does baffle me. How anyone with your pro-life stance can continue to vote for a party for which abortion is virtually a sacrament is hard to understand. Look at the conniption fit being thrown over a bill that simply says that 5 months is plenty of time for a woman to decide if she wants to have an abortion.

Oh my wrote:

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Who could ever accuse you of being a racist, thank for explaining the behavior of "those people".

Bigdave1 wrote:

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I agree but many of ideas for this law is already law. They just are not enforced. What makes you think if this law is passed it would be treated any differently than the existing laws?

Bill in Dville wrote:

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"but would you deny that nearly all racists vote republican, why is that?"
I added the question mark for you...
There are so many "available" responses to this post, but let's keep it simple:
Do you know and understand the definition of racism? It appears not. Can't black people be racist, too?
The vast majority of blacks are said to have voted for BO (90%+), so are you excluding them from your post? Oh, you mean WHITE racists, don't you?
If white people didn't vote for the black man because he's black (although I didn't vote for him because of his party, his ideas, his (lack of) plans, his lack of experience, etc.), isn't that the same thing as black people voting for the black man BECAUSE he's black?

Oh my wrote:

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Seems like those that have used it for their own symbology since the end of the Civil War have attached the current meaning to it, turning it from a Flag to a Rag.
Thanks for playing.

Synergy wrote:

<quoted text>YOU are the government parasite. You've bragged about it enough. Stand up and be proud.

You are in for a HUGE disappointment. Yep! The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Look out belooooooooooow. Union thug is on his way.

Informed Opinion wrote:

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We know that can't be true - Right Wingers won't move over to allow them room on the government teat.
If you want to see real government dependency, just visit any marina and observe the million dollar yachts.
The whitebread owners all say thanks for welfare - as they deduct the interest payments claiming the yachts are "second homes".
Ahhhh... Welfare to white folk ain't welfare.
Besides thanks to Right Wing Wackos white folks can work on Massa Romney's plantation.

OMTE wrote:

<quoted text>This law is calling for more ICE agents, staff, and support. ICE are the only people that enforce these laws. It's still no guarantee that they will be allowed to enforce the law, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Unlike the Senate bill that doesn't address this part of enforcement at all. It's a dead give away that they don't plan on enforcing the law and are only granting amnesty to win votes.

Why wrote:

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And Holder is burning the midnight oil trying to find a way to charge Zimmerman with something, or anything to appease Sharpton and Jackson.
While Obama is wringing his hands on how to fool the union thugs once a gain.

Why wrote:

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And Holder is burning the midnight oil trying to find a way to charge Zimmerman with something, or anything to appease Sharpton and Jackson.
While Obama is wringing his hands on how to fool the union thugs once a gain.