So apparently now Al Sharpton has decided he's not going to endorse Obama that easily. This story reveals a little more about an issue Obama supports, tort reform. Sharpton thinks that victims of police brutality need to be able to sue the police department, and this limits their ability to do that.
On the subject of tort reform, it just strikes me that the benefits of such practices is that lawyers will not have nearly the incentive to attract clients, from ambulance-chasing to charing nothing except for a portion of winnings in court (that is to say, if they lose, all their work was for free). Now of course, if a lawyer cannot get $10,000,000 in tort damages that way, their expected payout surely decreases. This will reduce the number of some of the more frivolous lawsuits; even the ones that fail are costly to businesses because their lawyers do not work for free, and of course, business costs are part of what is covered by consumers in the price of goods and services. Consumers are a demographic of all people, sexes, races, and creeds (well, maybe not the Amish, but you get the idea), after all.
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The most bizarre part of the story came right at the end.
The very premise of such a question seems absurd. It probably went something like this:Does Sharpton's endorsement matter? CBS 2 polled some New Yorkers and the
results were mixed, but the majority appeared to lean toward the side that
believes Sharpton's endorsement will make a difference.
"Will Sharpton's influence matter?"
"Well, not for me, but I can see that it might matter, sure."
I wouldn't be surprised if the above exchange happened with a lot of white people polled. The point is that you don't conduct opinion polls by asking people what they think other people think, if you want anything useful anyway; what you ask is what they think and then you get a representative sample and judge from that. Therefore, the question should have been, Do you care what Al Sharpton thinks?
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Just watch... BO's is going to listen to Sharpton and decide he doesn't like Tort Reform anymore. BO has a liberal view of everything else, so why not.
If BO changes his mind, CNN will do opinion polling as to whether of not "you think anyone else will like it," as you said in the end of your piece, because they are more likely to agree with those results instead of simply asking "Do you like it?"
BO = Barack Obama
B. Obama is more fun, because it looks like it could be "Bob Ama."
I don't think Obama want's to associate himself with Sharpton, and I think the media is making up Sharpton's influence. It seems like they're trying to get a bunch of white people to say that Sharpton's influence matters.
I kind of like Obama's style of political discourse; he's fairly diplomatic. Even if neither gets the nomination, I would love to see him debate Newt Gingrich.
I was right!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/Jackson_Will_Vote_for_Obama.html
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