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In reply to the discussion: Obama gave the GOP the greatest gift of all [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)newspaper was wrapped around the food they got from the food bank.
They voted in the 2008 election for Democrats. They were one of 4 million families that were foreclosed on and thrown in the street, following the 3 million before them, and adding to the additional 10 million people who have entered poverty in this administration, or the one out of 4 kids who aren't eating because there isn't enough food for them for that meal.
Now Joe and Jane are in poverty, statistically will be the rest of their lives and so will their children. Among people who traditionally don't vote. Will voters who used to vote, who had the education and money and time and a job that would let them still vote if their economics have gone downhill? Will millions of them? Will the tens upon tens of millions who now live in near poverty, who didn't live in poverty, and were much more likely to vote, before?
We gonna see goin' forward how easy it is to motivate people to vote who have been waiting years, and who will continue to wait, for hope that is never, ever gonna come.