Behind the badge: Officers under attack

I would say that is accurate!

At least 2 studies say its true. No wonder they want to let everyone out of the prisons and say excessive force is routine.

1. If disenfranchised felons had been allowed to vote, they would have swung the 2000 presidential race to Al Gore, according to a national study. The study posits that since racial minorities and the poor – groups that tend to vote for Democrats– make up a disproportionate number of felons, a hypothetical felon voting bloc would be so overwhelmingly Democratic it could swing national and statewide elections. On average, 74 percent of felons would have voted Democratic in presidential and U.S. Senate elections dating back to 1972, according to the study’s analysis of demographic and voting data.

Of Democratic presidential candidates, the study predicts that Bill Clinton’s successful 1996 re-election campaign would have gotten the highest percentage of felon votes, at 85.4 percent. Jimmy Carter’s failed 1980 re-election would have gotten the lowest, at 66.5 percent.

2. If you’ve spent some time in jail, you are much more likely to vote Democrat, according to a new study published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The numbers are actually pretty stark. In the three states the study analyzed – New York, New Mexico, and North Carolina – convicts overwhelmingly identified with the Democratic Party. Almost 62% of convicts in New York are registered Democrats and only 9% are Republican; 52% in New Mexico are Democrat, with just over 10% as Republican; and 54.6% are Democrat in North Carolina, and 10.2% are Republican. The AAPSS study puts it bluntly: “Democrats would benefit from additional ex-felon participation.” The convict population makes up a pretty large share of American voters – 2.5% of voters nationwide. There are almost 6 million eligible voters in jail. For Democrats, that’s a few million extra votes. And when you’re dealing with numbers like that, the voting rights’ of felons become a big freaking deal. Only two states right now – Maine and Vermont – allow felons to vote. More allow felons on parole to vote, and 19 states allow felons to vote once release is final. But that means a good chunk don’t give felons voting rights – including 12 that nullify voting rights for convicted felons that meet certain criteria. And stripping felons of voting rights, unsurprisingly, disproportionally disenfranchises minority voters.

Didn't know she harbored such strong opinions. Not all democrats are liberal, or bad.