LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Single mother Mary White worked as a sales clerk until the bank foreclosed on the home she rented.
Tossed out on the street with her six boys, she lost her deposit and her job. Now she is revved up to vote in November. "My situation is going to make me want to vote even more," she said.
"I want to say that this should not be happening to people in America, and I am very angry and upset about it."
White, 42, is among many homeless people eager to cast a vote in an election year dominated by the shaky U.S. economy and a deepening housing crisis.
The U.S. government estimates that more than 400,000 people around the country sleep in homeless shelters each night, with many more on the streets, under bridges and in parked cars. Advocacy groups say that some 3.5 million Americans will find themselves homeless at some point in a year.
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With all the companies laying off thousands of people look for many more new voters. This election will make history not because of the candidates. The US is in such a bad state people will vote to stay alive. Bush is safe with Foreign people it's the Americans he has to watch out for. What's interesting is we can't say we didn't know about the corruption of this Administration.
Yes the famous Downing Street Memo was released in 2002 that told of the Bush plan to illegally invade Iraq and lie about it. The Media and the US Propaganda Dept. did a great job at spin but the information was released and American believed Bush's lies.
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