"These days it's popular to attribute electoral outcomes to influential "special interests", and certainly powerful individuals and groups can affect election results. Still, "special interests" can only get you so far in explaining democratic fortunes; voters aren't just blank slates upon which the rich and powerful can project their own preferences.
So consider me skeptical that strong African American support for a pro-charter school initiative in Georgia is best explained by "out-of-state money" (Valerie Strauss) or opponents being "drowned out" by President Obama (Jim Galloway). I'm totally prepared to believe that big money and popular leaders can change the way people vote, but by all accounts the move to make charter authorization easier was favored by a large majority of African American voters. "...
Color me skeptical that with no sources other than the blog-posting of Alexander Russo, (and no sources to back it up), that "by all accounts" it's favored by African American voters...
By WHOSE accounts? Proof?
Oh, we're supposed to buy it because Russo said it... And you heard it somewhere on the Internets....
LadyJazzer wrote: Color me skeptical that with no sources other than the blog-posting of Alexander Russo, (and no sources to back it up), that "by all accounts" it's favored by African American voters...
By WHOSE accounts? Proof?
Oh, we're supposed to buy it because Russo said it... And you heard it somewhere on the Internets....
Well, "Some people say ......"
So, you are saying that if it were true it would upset you?
