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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (104754)	12/7/2000 8:46:48 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 769670

After reading a few articles on this site I'm wondering why blacks voted Gore in such numbers. What have C/G done for blacks? Anyone? lp.org What made the 'Drug War disenfranchisement' so devastating for Gore, rather than Bush, Dasbach explained, is the demographics of the Drug War. "African-Americans are five times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for drug violations, according to the Justice Policy Institute," he said. "Blacks are also far more likely to have voted for Gore; in fact exit polls showed that 93 percent of blacks did so. So preventing drug offenders from voting siphoned far more prospective votes from Gore than from Bush. "It's clear that the person Al Gore should blame for losing Florida is, well, Al Gore," Dasbach said. "Perversely, the vice president supports a policy - the War on Drugs - that disenfranchised far more of his own supporters than of his opponent."