February 24, 2008
MAKING IT ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR THE GOP...:
Crime as a Campaign Issue (David Broder, 2/24/08, Real Clear Politics)
From Pakistan to Serbia, and recurrently in Iraq, the headlines point to the dangers of the world -- most notably the threat of terrorism. And yet when the polling firm Cooper & Secrest Associates asked
1,139 Americans in December which threat they took most seriously, 69 percent chose violent crime and only 19 percent named terrorist attack.The survey was part of a striking report released Saturday (Feb. 23) by Third Way, a liberal think tank, and several governors, warning that the crime issue, which has slipped off the political agenda since its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, is about to return.
...that Senator Obama wants to reduce sentences for crack dealers. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2008 7:52 AM
Slam-dunk simple. The crime-fighting strategy which works--about the only one which works--is incapacitory incarceration. Lock 'em up until they're too old to run fast. Good jobs program for the law-abiding, as well, building, and staffing all those state prisons out among the coal-crackers and sh*t-kickers.
Effendi Obama's core constituency does not like incapacitory incarceration, for some stange reason, so he has to back and haul around the issue. Focusing discussion of crime might even bait him into coming out of the closet on gun-grabbing.
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 24, 2008 8:25 AM"...Third Way, a liberal think tank..."
Posted by: Ibid at February 24, 2008 9:33 AM