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It's a shame that the more serious issues in Alabama were drowned out by other things in the senate race, I don't expect that either candidate will solve these issues but there should have been an intelligent debate. Instead the focus of the argument is a year book signature, sam5e sex marriage and abortion. The only hospital in Haleyville County that serves 9,000 people is closing. Alabama has one of the largest income disparities in the country and is very reliant on defense and other government programs in addition to foreign investment by companies like Airbus.
Haleyville County went 90% for Trump, but Medicaid funding expansion could have helped their lives and starting a trade war over NAFTA could have damaged their economy.
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About 17 percent of Alabamians live in poverty — the fifth-highest rate in the country — and the state’s violence-wracked prisons are jammed to 159 percent of their intended capacity. With budget troubles a chronic fact of life, spending on Medicaid, which has not been expanded, lags. Standardized test scores are among the nation’s lowest. Heart disease and diabetes are endemic.
The infant mortality rate for 2016 rose to 9.1 deaths per 1,000 live births, the highest rate the state has seen since 2008. (The national rate was 5.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2015, the most recent year for which federal data is available.)
Samuel N. Addy, an economist at the University of Alabama, said the state still has glaring public sector needs in education, infrastructure, health and prisons.
It's a shame that the more serious issues in Alabama were drowned out by other things in the senate race, I don't expect that either candidate will solve these issues but there should have been an intelligent debate. Instead the focus of the argument is a year book signature, sam5e sex marriage and abortion. The only hospital in Haleyville County that serves 9,000 people is closing. Alabama has one of the largest income disparities in the country and is very reliant on defense and other government programs in addition to foreign investment by companies like Airbus.
Haleyville County went 90% for Trump, but Medicaid funding expansion could have helped their lives and starting a trade war over NAFTA could have damaged their economy.
Obama didn't do such a good job for the citizens in AL during his 8 years in office, that's why Trump won.
The news media is directing the message, not the politicians.
The media has demonstrated their ability to twist and redirect a politician's words to meet their narrative and support their political agenda. Typically an opponents words are given a fear and hate mongering twist which they consider more news worthy than actual policy details where they might have to provide perspective.
Obama didn't do such a good job for the citizens in AL during his 8 years in office, that's why Trump won.
The news media is directing the message, not the politicians.
The media has demonstrated their ability to twist and redirect a politician's words to meet their narrative and support their political agenda. Typically an opponents words are given a fear and hate mongering twist which they consider more news worthy than actual policy details where they might have to provide perspective.
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Originally Posted by PedroMartinez
Alabama was run by Democrats for over a hundred years. It takes time to turn a huge ship.
Right away with the partisan blame. Their problems need to be solved within the state but it appears they are voting against their own numbers. They are running close to last in every category, they have larger problems than same sex marriage. How about doing something about education or health care, that should be the debate.
So all these things supposedly happened over 40 years ago. I thought that sexual perverts never get over it. So where are all the other victims from the last 40 years?????
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