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PoliPundit.com » Felons Voting in WA

PoliPundit.com » Felons Voting in WA:

Apparently, at least 1,108 felons voted in the recent Washington state gubernatorial election, which Democrat Christine Gregoire claims to have “won” by 129 votes. 884 of the felons voted here in ultra-liberal King County, which gave Gregoire her margin of “victory.”

No wonder Hillary wants all felons to vote.

Of course, AFAIK felons vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

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Keith Gaughan (http://talideon.com/) wrote:

Aw, c'mon! That's a low blow. I'd expect better of you than that.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 24-Feb-2005 11:18am est | http://talideon.com/ | #7055

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

What's a low blow? Claiming that felons vote Democrat? It's not a low blow if it's true. Consider: 1. Felons are overwhelmingly from urban areas, and we all know urban areas vote blue. 2. Felons are disproportionately black, and blacks vote about 90% Democrat. 3. Which do you think felons are likely to support, law and order Republicans or nanny-state Democrats? That's just part of my reasoning of why it's likely true, but I've heard before that it's definitely true. In some states felons are allowed to vote, so I presume we do have statistics about these things.

Keith | 24-Feb-2005 11:25am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7058

G wrote:

Interesting post here
The nation's 4 million convicted felons could be enough to swing the November election. Surveys show that the overwhelming majority would vote Democratic if they could, so felons are a voting bloc that Democrats are just itching to harvest.

∴ G | 24-Feb-2005 4:27pm est | #7062

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

I don't know what the source for that quote is, nor what surveys they're referring to.

After checking, here's the original article he's quoting. Even after reading the article it isn't clear what studies she's referring to, so I have no way to check. But in any case, it seems clear that Democrats are the ones who are all about getting felons to vote, and I assume that they have a political motivation for that (i.e. they know felons would give them more votes).

Keith | 25-Feb-2005 10:38am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7065

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