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Brutal. From a Gallup news report:
“Americans are much more likely to oppose (64%) than to favor (29%) making Washington, D.C., a separate state. These results are consistent with past polling on the topic by other firms, which also found majorities opposed to the idea.
Although D.C. residents want their city to become the 51st state, their fellow Americans disagree. In fact, Americans have consistently opposed D.C. statehood in polling over the past three decades. The issue has become politicized, given that adding D.C. as a state would practically guarantee increased Democratic representation in Congress. As such, a D.C. statehood proposal is unlikely to pass unless there were a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate and a Democratic president.”
Read the full report by Jeffrey M. Jones here.
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Are we overly obsessed about crime?
I truly and genuinely feel that crime is overrated in terms of our day to day lives. Yes I hate it. I get infuriated when I hear (about) gunshots or muggings etc. but does it really affect your day to day life. I mean sometimes I won’t walk home late at night but don’t we obsess about crime a little too much.
