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How Stupid Has the Democratic Party Become?
Thom plus logo  Republicans haven't taken over red states; Democrats have lost them by not running as real Democrats.

That's my big takeaway from Alec MacGillis' fascinating look into the biggest political mystery of our time: why poor white people in red states are not bothering to turn out to vote, leaving the field to Republicans elected by more affluent whites in those states.

There a lot of theories as to why this happens.

One of the most famous comes from Thomas Frank, who argued in his book What's The Matter With Kansas? that poor white people vote Republican because Republicans have duped them into caring about social issues like abortion, guns, and gay marriage.

There is a lot to be said for that line of analysis, but Alec MacGillis, has a different theory.

As he explains in a new piece for ProPublica and The New York Times, the problem isn't that poor white people who should vote Democrat vote Republican.

No, the problem is that "the people who most rely on the safety-net programs secured by Democrats are, by and large... not voting, period."

To put it in less wonky terms, Democrats are losing out to Republicans in what have become red states because the people who should vote for Democrats aren't voting whatsoever, full-stop.

A great example of this, according to MacGillis, is Pike County, Kentucky, which is both a place where 18 percent of households get some sort of government assistance and a place where Kentucky governor-elect and Tea Party favorite Matt Bevin just won 55 percent of the vote.

All logic suggests that Pike County should vote Democratic, and it used to do so pretty much every election, "but 30 percent fewer people voted in the county this month than did in 2003 --11,223 voters in a county of 63,000, far below the county's tally of food-stamp recipients, which was more than 17,000 in 2012."

If all of Pike County's 17,000 food stamp recipients had come out to vote, we could be talking about how that county was a democratic stronghold in a sea of red.

But that didn't happen, and now we're left with the same old problem of a county -- and a state, for that matter -- that should go Democratic but instead falls to Republicans.

Read more here.

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Hour One: Are Fox & Trump to blame for the rise of White Supremacists?
Article: "Syria insurgents destroy Russian helicopter with missile" by Tom Perry and Mariam Karouny.
Article: "American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph" by Julia Jones and Eve Bower.
Article: "Obama and Hollande meet: What a difference in U.S.-French relations " by Stephen Collinson and Kevin Liptak.
Article: "Global debt defaults near milestone" by Gavin Jackson and Eric Platt.
Article: "Spoofing verdict shocks futures trading industry" by Gregory Meyer, Lindsay Whipp, Philip Stafford.
Quote: "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death!" - Patrick Henry".
Article: "What We Learned From German Prisons" by Nicholas Turner and Jeremy Travis.
Article: "The Deadliest Jobs in America" by Bloomberg.

Hour Two: Killer Mike's Bernie introduction - plus your calls on White Supremacy...
Article: "Can Science Explain the Rise of Bernie Sanders?" by Timothy Bertrand.
Article: "True Patriotic Defense (America???)" by WizardBeWitch.
Movie: "Reefer Madness".
Article: "Matthew Shepard" by Wikipedia.
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Article: "Pfizer seeks Washington support for $160bn Allergan deal" by David Crow and James Fontanella-Khan and Barney Jopson.
Article: "Ex-staffer sues Gowdy and Benghazi panel" by Rachael Bade.
Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.
Article: "TRNS News Notes- 11/23" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are siding with terrorists!
Law: "Help America Vote Act" (2002).
Article: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, November 12, 2001.
Article: "Trump rallies get rough" by Ben Schreckinger.
Article: "Treaty of Versailles" by Wikipedia (28 June 1919, at the end of World War I).
Quote: "Those who sign this Treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children" - John Maynard Keynes.
Article: "Imhotep" by African Economic Development Plan.
Article: "How Much Do Taxpayers Pay For Police Misconduct?" by Police State Politics.
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Hostages taken in northern French town - police source" by Gerard Bon and Sophie Louet.
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