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James Carville: America Is Better With Democrats In Control

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Democratic political consultant James Carville spoke with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about his new book, We're Still Right, They're Still Wrong, about why the country benefits more when Democrats are in office as opposed to Republicans."

Carville insists Americans do much better when Democrats control the government and offered the stock market a primary example.

"A lot people have excuses as to how to justify it...You can look at objective things. You can look at growth. You can look at the stock market. The conservatives say the stock market is the first expression of sentiment at a time. The does stock market does staggeringly better under Democrats than Republicans."

He also addressed education, particularly charter schools, and called for them to be regulated on the same level as public schools.

 

"In Louisiana, they were given vouchers to people that were teaching that the earth was 5000 years old. I'm not going to pay a penny of my tax money to teach children a lie. They had one school that was not regulated. They had one school that was doing this, a lot of people that get vouchers, they don't let everybody in. On the whole, they don't do as good. I think charter schools, in certain areas, assuming that they're regulated, assuming that they meet certain standards, the can do pretty good."

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