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Related: About this forumRepublican-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.htmlRepublican-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 hed 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 Countys Republican Party, said many recipients will back Romney in hopes hell 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
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GeorgeGist
(25,302 posts)1. Makes perfect sense.
Deep down Republican governments are self-loathing
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. b/c republicans are loathsome ..... nt
Always Randy
(1,058 posts)3. There's even more to it than that
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
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.