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If that's true, the GOP deserves Hillary. Of course, she may be the only thing that saves them from themselves.

 

Everyone should just vote for Kasich.

 

#humblebrag

 

Not at all. I wouldn't think that would be some singular accomplishment on this site.

 

Trump didn't write the book himself, and everything in it is a lie anyway.

 

That's a story, too. Remember the "lie" that ended Ben Carson's campaign? Right out of his books.

 

Just kidding. It's fairly impressive. Assuming you didn't neglect the treadmill during the writing.

 

Here are some facts about the crime bill:

-- Democrats didn't "jump on board" the crime bill; It was sponsored by Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat, and was originally written by Joe Biden and it passed the Senate by a slim margin of 95-4;
-- At the time, 1994, there had been more then 23,000 murders across the country for five straight years;
-- The root causes for the higher numbers were street gangs and drugs (apply whatever color you like to that);
-- The bill received support from many black leaders (Jesse Jackson was a notable exception) because their communities were being disproportionately affected by the high crime rate;
-- The law authorized hiring 100,000 more police officers, expanded the death penalty, encouraged states to lengthen prison sentences, allocated $1.6 billion to prevent and investigate violence against women, banned assault weapons, and established sex offender registries.
-- The law was effective: The homicide rate decreased by 10 percent in the first year and by 2000, the murder rate had declined by almost 40 percent from its peak.

We can look back and say, yeah, it was too punitive, but only Jesse Jackson and a few others were saying that at the time.

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That must be the same math that Rubio uses to prove that lots of second and third places finishes equal winning.

 

I'm hesitant to say that the bill lead to the decrease in the murder rate.

 

Same thing happened about thirty years ago in Harris County (Houston) Texas. The election for county chair featured a guy with an Eastern European surname and a guy with an Anglo-Saxon name, who won the election. The first guy had been in the county party for many years and had been the chair for years. The one who was elected was a Lyndon LaRouche nutjob. The county party had to strip the position down to a title and assign all the power and duties elsewhere. Let's hear it for informed voters.

 

It wasn't just the murder rate, though -- the '90s were a huge crime wave across the board. All of those numbers dropped quickly beginning in 1995.