Imagine this scenario. A person is receiving benefits from the government. That person has to make a choice between two candidates. One promises to extend this benefits forever and the other wants to end them. Who do you think that person will vote for?
It just seems like that the candidate promising to maintain those benefits has an advantage over the one that doesn't. I've spoken with people who are on these programs and they say they are great. It almost impossible for anyone to run on taking them away from them and you definitely can't tell them that to their face especially when they tell you they have a billion kids to feed. How does anyone run on taking away those benefits?
All Republicans need to do is go into those neighborhoods and provide people with well paying jobs
Why won't they do it?
Mainly because the profit margins are pretty thin when your store gets burned down or robbed on a regular basis.
Republican solutions to poverty always center on ...get a job
If Republicans bring well paying jobs into minority communities, they will vote Republican forever. Yet, Republicans will not even set up offices in those communities