Low-income voters could be pivotal (Oregonian)

[salin]

Excellent list of issues to be used in voter registration drives.

Robert Landauer
Low-income voters could be pivotal
Sunday, October 10, 2004
ROBERT LANDAUER

I tem: Why are voter-registration workers assaulting us on streetcorners, at malls and on our doorsteps? If people with incomes at $15,000 or less had voted at the same rate as people with incomes of $75,000 or more in 2000, another 3.9 million votes would have been cast, according to analysis by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. That's 3.6 percent of all votes cast in 2000, and a million more than Ralph Nader got.

Only 41 percent of citizens eligible to vote in families making $15,000 a year or less actually voted in the 2000 presidential election compared with 75 percent of those in families making $75,000.

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Item: Three down, one to go on presidential/vice presidential debates. But the question that will affect more Americans' long-term security than terrorist attacks hasn't been asked:

With corporate pension plans failing in large numbers, what specific steps would you take as president to ensure that all of the delayed pay earned by workers will be there for them when they retire and that taxpayers won't have to bail out the increasingly shaky federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.?

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