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How did crime become the sleeper issue of the 2010 midterms?

By Jonathan Simor

Few were looking for 2010 to be a big "crime"election, in the manner of '88 (Dukakis and the Willie Horton), '92 (Clinton committed to outshining Bush on capital punishment by carrying out an execution during the primaries), '94 (massive crime bill and 3-Strikes in California) and '96 (Clinton as the 100K policemen on the street President). Unlike then, crime is at lows not seen since before the great crime wave of the 1960s began (although precise comparisons are impossible due to the poor quality of crime data from that era). Moreover, while the nation went through a recession in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was not nearly as severe as the Great Recession which has left the US economy weaker then in decades. But while crime is not framing the national dispute between the parties in this midterm Congressional election, it is emerging in a wide variety of state and local races, from Baltimore, to California, to Connecticut...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).