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Brooks: Showing Concern For “the Poor” Should be Conservatives’ Top Priority

OpenMindedLiberal Wrote: Mar 05, 2013 4:10 PM
Ok...I'll bite. You DO realize that a lot of what you guys are claiming "cost" the American public are estimates of the figures that someone would pay if they were purchasing/renting such services, right? Sigh. Of course you know. It just doesn't sound quite as incendiary. So who do you think was a good First Lady? Nancy? Barbara? Alright...let's talk about them both. They both were quite well dressed, Barbara going the Bill Blass, Laura Ashley route and Nancy a fan of de la Renta. Mrs. Obama primarily wears J.Crew, which while pricey, pales in comparison to the "cost" of La Regan. I put cost in quotes, because guess what guys..... NO ONE PAID FOR ANYTHING. Jeez, really? Do you even find out how things work before you criti

So much time and money and digital ink has been spent in recent months trying to figure out “what went wrong” during the last election cycle. But perhaps the answer is simpler than we realize: Writing in the Wall Street Journal on Monday, AEI president Arthur C. Brooks argued that conservatives are failing to discuss an issue every voter in America cares deeply about -- namely, how to empower and improve the lives of poor people:

[T]here is only one statistic needed to explain the outcome of the 2012 presidential election. An April YouGov.com poll—which mirrored every other poll...
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