<![CDATA[Palin Talks About Special Needs Children, But Obama Has Substantive Plans For All People With Disabilities]]>

1.0 link 131758 <![CDATA[Palin Talks About Special Needs Children, But Obama Has Substantive Plans For All People With Disabilities]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-k-longmore/palin-talks-about-special_b_131758.html Ever since Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, there has been a great deal of talk about "special needs" children but little about the issues that concern the 54 million Americans with disabilities of all ages. Pollsters and pundits almost completely ignore the tens of millions of voters in the disability rights constituency---adults with disabilities, family members, and many professionals---but they will play a much larger role in this election than most observers recognize. That makes understanding their issues important.

Palin's promise to...

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