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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 09:12 AM Nov 2012

Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-05/republican-heavy-counties-eat-up-most-food-stamp-growth.html

Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth
By Frank Bass - 2012-11-05T05:00:15Z

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in May that he’d written off votes from 47 percent of Americans who are collecting government aid. Turns out many of them are part of his political base.

Seventy percent of counties with the fastest-growth in food-stamp aid during the last four years voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2008, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data compiled by Bloomberg. They include Republican strongholds like King County, Texas, which in 2008 backed Republican John McCain by 92.6 percent, his largest share in the nation; and fast-growing Douglas County, Colorado.

That means Romney is counting on votes from areas where lower-income people have become more reliant on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps. Mark Baisley, who heads Douglas County’s Republican Party, said many recipients will back Romney in hopes he’ll improve the economy.

“Would you rather be sitting at home wishing you had a job and relying upon the kindness of neighbors?” Baisley said in a telephone interview from Colorado, one of the swing states that Romney and President Barack Obama are battling over. “Or would you rather be self-supporting, with a job that sustains your family?”
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Republican-Heavy Counties Eat Up Most Food-Stamp Growth (Original Post) unhappycamper Nov 2012 OP
Makes perfect sense. GeorgeGist Nov 2012 #1
b/c republicans are loathsome ..... nt leftyohiolib Nov 2012 #2
There's even more to it than that Always Randy Nov 2012 #3
Are these not the counties and the people Springslips Nov 2012 #4

Always Randy

(1,058 posts)
3. There's even more to it than that
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:03 AM
Nov 2012

These are ideal areas for Democratic inroads. I haven't made a demographic study , but I will guess most of the other common problems persist in these areas. Education, nutrition, poor medical services, low information, and even when they are employed it is just, on average, a basic living wage. I can see how a strong signal AM radio station with some good entertainment and high level services could benefit areas like this. They have been kept in the dark too long.These are places for some real missionary work.

Springslips

(533 posts)
4. Are these not the counties and the people
Mon Nov 5, 2012, 10:30 AM
Nov 2012

That Huey Long, and later LBJ, helped and started the progressive movement in the early 20th century? They need to come back to the fold.

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