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Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax
One way Democrats can win back the House is to keep allowing illegal immigration to put downward pressure on the wages of blue collar voters, and then calling those voters racist when they complain about it.

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Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Chomskyan posted:

Where is the evidence for this large army of gun-owning single-issue voters who will vote religiously against the Democrats unless they weaken their stance on guns? Where is the evidence? The pro-gun posters in this thread have provided no evidence they exist. Only just-so stories about how the Democrats lost the election and it must have been due to the assault weapon ban because *furious hand waving*.

I'm honestly open minded to being proven wrong on this point, but I want to see unambiguous statistical evidence that these voters exist in significant numbers, enough so that the Democrats would be better off dropping gun control than keeping it on their platform.

Well, I worked on the Bill Clinton gubernatorial campaign in high school, and the single toughest sell was always gun control. We always had to publish photos of him shooting ducks and whatnot. This was in Arkansas and 25 years ago, of course.

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Main Paineframe posted:

Besides, aren't you the one treating them like overall-wearing yokels? It might shock you to hear that guns are not the only political issue that rural whites care about. There are government policies which affect rural whites' lives far more deeply and importantly than how many attachments they're allowed to stick on an AR-15.

Of course there are. But economic issues can be nebulous and poor whites have no reason to trust anyone. Gun control, however, is a clear indication of "gently caress YOU, REDNECK".

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