If my party registration is democrat on my voter card, does this mean i cant vote for a republican?
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First, DC is 51% Black. This number is down from a peak of 71% in 1970, but is still way higher than the next highest (MS = 37%). This matters because Blacks are probably the strongest Democratic bloc in America, so Democrats have a solid near-majority of the vote right there.Unlike the Southern states, where large Black populations are counterbalanced by even larger strongly-Republican White populations, DC has a White population that generally favors Democrats.The biggest thing is that city-dwellers generally favor Democrats, and DC is 100% urban. Compared to other large city-centers (NYC, Chicago, Philly, etc.), there's nothing really unusual about DC. If you live in a large multiethnic city, then you have to be comfortable with diversity, and birtherism probably doesn't speak to you. If you live in DC, then you probably like your public transit and your Amtrak as much as Joe Biden does. If you live in a city, you probably favor handgun regulation and don't care as much about clinging to your own hunting rifles.Another thing to note is level of education. DC has far more people with post-graduate degrees than any other state — 28% compared with the next highest (MA = 16%). Obama and Romney were roughly split in the other educational attainment categories, but Obama won postgrads decisively — roughly 55–45. My guess is that Democratic numbers are even better in DC because DC's highly-educated population is more heavily weighted towards attorneys, professors, and civil servants than other places' highly-educated populations, and those groups tend to favor Democrats at a higher rate than other highly-educated people like MBAs and MDs.Oh, and specific to DC: Republican officials tend not to favor DC statehood, and Republican members of Congress are more likely than Democrats to interfere with DC's self-rule. This grates on DC residents.
Why are Democrats against voter ID?
The current Socialist version of the Democratic party sees benefit from illegals coming here, who by and large are the ones to stand to benefit from that. Hillary & Obama have both voted in against voter ID, just like they have voted for giving illegals Social Security benefits and touted giving them driver's licenses. The eventually see a "one world" planet where we have no borders or sovreignity; a world run by the UN, with Socialism replacing our systems of government and economics. As to why, they know that by and large illegals from Mexico will always vote Democrat, and they need the workforce here since their welfare state system they created has diminished the American workforce significantly. ------------------------- To my misinformed friend "Majority" who answered below. If you disagree, by all means enlighten us as to what the "real" reasons would be behind the Democrats doing this. It's a fact that they want it, so if our opinions are all wrong let us know yours rather than just give empty commentary. ------------------------- To my other misinformed friend "Hannity is a Moron". How exactly is having to show your ID when you vote disenfranchising? That simply makes no sense. The definition of disenfranchise is "to deprive of the rights of citizenship". Having to have an ID and show it deprives no one except those who aren't legally able to vote. ---------------------------- To my friend "Word Girl" who also answered. Kudos to you for at least offering an intelligent counterpoint. However, given that one can't get a bank account, drive a car, cash a check, etc without a government issued ID or Driver's License, don't you think it's VERY likely that the people you are referring to might be in the VAST minority? Plus, no one is preventing them from getting an ID, and if getting an ID is too much trouble, surely voting would be too. I'd rather miss a few legitimate voters who CHOSE not to participate than invite hundreds of thousands of illegitimate ones to vote. -------------------------- To my misinformed friend "Tom B" who answered below. Maybe I'm wrong, but last time I checked the issue was having to show your government issued photo ID (driver's license or ID card) not force us to get another photo ID.
What, exactly are Obama and the democrats in Congress doing to get people off EBT cards and into jobs?
Surely you jest. This is not the plan. In order to stay in power, the liberals must continue to make more and more people dependent on the government, and their plan is working. The plan is simple really. You raise taxes on everyone and squeeze businesses so hard that they have no choice but to lay people off in order to survive. Part of the plan is also to keep the Affordable Act so unaffordable, by raising the costs of health insurance, so that it is prohibitive for everyone except the uber rich, that everyone is dependent on the government for everything. The economy soon does collapse and the progressive/liberals will dictate what they believe your needs are. So long freedom, independence and oh, btw God will also be thrown out like in the old USSR. @justagramma: Walmart workers make much more than minimum wage, and they do have very good health insurance. Possibly due to the fact they are not union. I have many friends who work at Walmart and it is not a disgrace to work for a living. And btw, they all work full-time. Moody
Why are Democrats fighting against valid ID's being shown before voting? What is your opinion?
Democrats and Republicans have target demographics. In general, Republicans want business people and heads of households to come out and vote, in the hopes that a pledge of small government will be appealing to those who pay the taxes to run it. In general, Democrats want poorer folks to vote, in the hopes that a pledge of helping the needy will be appealing to those who are disadvantaged. The above being said, and if I may be permitted to continue the stereotype, there is reason to suspect that the movers and shakers in society tend to have their acts together a little bit more than the poor and disadvantaged. Thus, they will be more likely to show up at the polls with a proper ID. The Democrats' preference for accepting votes without a proper ID is likely based on the premise that voters without IDs are more likely to be Democrat-supporters than Republican-supporters. I think this reasoning is sound. In my view, voting is a serious matter, and the notion of one-person-one-vote is too important for people to be permitted to vote without being able to identify themselves properly. One is reminded of elections where votes were purportedly cast by dead people whose names were still on the registered voter lists. This simply should not happen. Exercise your right to vote, but show up with some way of showing that you're a rightful voter. Thanks for the question.
I’m going to return to a graph I used recently.The light-blue column represents the people who went from voting for Obama in 2012 to voting for Trump in 2016.The green is the opposite: people who voted for Romney in 2012 and Clinton in 2016.If you want to regain the votes of the first group, you have to see what separated them from other people who voted from the Obama-to-Clinton voters.72% supported repealing the ACA!64% supported deportations.And only 47% supported providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.For all practical purposes, you can’t remain a Democrat and appeal to to them on these issues. The most you might be able to do is to fix whatever they disliked about the ACA. But that won’t work. The ACA, like every other piece of legislation, has trade-offs. These people likely don’t like that their premiums went up, which was expected, because the ACA mandates that everybody buy insurance that covers more stuff. This is done in order for the healthy to provide a subsidy to the sick. And there’s really no convincing people who hate it that it’s in their best interest.You’re not going to be a Democrat and support deportation. Although, maybe Democrats could propose a path to legality without citizenship. That might be a compromise worth considering.I should mention that this group is less pro-choice than Democrats as a whole, but 55% still support the pro-choice position.I’m afraid that’s all I’ve got on that group.Next, let’s look at the Romney-to-Clinton voters.The biggest different between them and Democrats is again this matter of wanting to repeal the ACA. On pretty much everything else, they just look like moderate Democrats, which is why it was possible for them to support Hillary in the first place.But I would not advise doing anything special to get these voters.They already voted for Hillary, who was pretty unpopular.Trump has only gotten more unpopular since his election.Any move away from the ACA would probably lose more lefties than it would gain moderates, unless it can be ascertained that these moderate voters would support something like Medicare or Medicaid for all, funded by increasing taxes… on someone other than themselves.
Do I need my voter registration card to actually vote?
If they have you on the list, you won't need it. If they don't and you don't have it, they will give you a disputed ballot envelope and it will be a pain. So apply for a new one but go to vote even if it doesn't arrive in time. There are proposed laws to make people show their RealID in order to allow them to vote starting in 2011. 41 states have introduced resolutions condemning the RealID Act of 2005. The courts may or may not declare this use unconstitutional. Write you congressman and tell them to repeal it.
Why is it too much to ask that welfare EBT debit cards not be able to withdraw funds from casinos, strip clubs?
If you can use them in those places it's likely because they sell food and laws are rarely written with such specificity that they can't include every single place imaginable. It's not like some democrat wrote them that way. Republicans never wanted to eliminate welfare, so what's really your point? Return, what does needing an ID to prove your age have to do with a constitutional right? There isn't a fraud issue and it's causing problems for students who don't have current ID's and people who don't have birth certificates because of their ages. Try doing some fricking research and stop believing everything you hear.