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Democrats woo black voters at South Carolina forum
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 6, 2015 8:55 PM EST | Lisa Lerer and Bill Barrow

Posted on 11/06/2015 7:13:15 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Democratic presidential contenders opened a televised forum in the early voting state of South Carolina Friday night with an attack on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, who's seen her numbers rise after a summer slump. [...]

The forum marked the start of a weekend of wooing African-American voters in South Carolina. Clinton used the campaign swing to expand on her criminal justice policy, rolling out a series of new proposals that would reduce mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders, grant greater discretion to judges and retroactively eliminate the five-year minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: blackvote; clinton; democrats; socialism

1 posted on 11/06/2015 7:13:15 PM PST by Olog-hai
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Democrats woo sucker black voters at South Carolina forum
2 posted on 11/06/2015 7:16:42 PM PST by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: Olog-hai

Free stuff! Yo daddy gets out of jail free!


3 posted on 11/06/2015 7:18:11 PM PST by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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Getch Yer 40 Acres and Mule here! Register to vote Dem!


4 posted on 11/06/2015 7:19:29 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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Ya’ll N-words need to be votin’ for us, patna! Dem Repubthuglicans be trippin!


5 posted on 11/06/2015 7:23:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: Olog-hai

Did the Dems throw them free food stamps, it was probably like one of Oprah’s favorite things shows “YOU GET FOOD STAMPS, and YOU GET FOOD STAMPS, and YOU GET FOOD STAMPS..just vote for us”


6 posted on 11/06/2015 7:23:52 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Olog-hai

Okay, exactly what is WOO a code for?


7 posted on 11/06/2015 7:24:31 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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How are they wooing them? Telling them how they’re inviting in hundreds of thousand illegal Hispanics to compete against them for jobs and government bennies? And yet they will fall in line to support their masters.


8 posted on 11/06/2015 7:44:06 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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this reeks of racism. Dems think blacks want light sentences for black criminals


9 posted on 11/06/2015 7:56:14 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Olog-hai

LOL....

This is good news, folks.

The fact that the Demon Rats think they HAVE TO WOO black voters tells you that they are worried.


10 posted on 11/06/2015 8:03:49 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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"...rolling out a series of new proposals that would reduce mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders, grant greater discretion to judges and retroactively eliminate the five-year minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine..."

Are they "wooing black voters," or wooing criminals?

Or is Hillary saying the two groups are the same?

11 posted on 11/06/2015 8:28:14 PM PST by Redbob (#BlackCoffeeMatters)
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The Dims aren’t “wooing black voters,” they take them for granted and expend all their energies trying to convince illegal aliens to risk jail time by voting illegally too.

Meanwhile, here in Texas at least the latinos who ARE eligible to vote do so in very low numbers


12 posted on 11/06/2015 8:31:09 PM PST by Redbob (#BlackCoffeeMatters)
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13 posted on 11/07/2015 4:28:21 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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