Posted on 11/05/2014 10:29:26 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Earlier this year, Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAACP and current chair Southern Election Fund, put out a report showing how a targeted wave of voter registration among people of color voters could shift the balance of power in key Southern states. But these efforts have come up against a series of cumbersome voter ID laws that have made it harder for people to vote, buttressed by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating key parts of the Voting Rights Act. "The Republicans aren't doubling down on voter suppression in states they're trying to acquire," Jealous says. "They're doubling down on voter suppression in states [where] they're afraid of losing control ... This is what it looks like when the clocks are being turned back."
(Excerpt) Read more at truth-out.org ...
Last night was a BIG win for voter ID and for everywhere in which we won governorships and legislatures, it should be PRIORITY NO. 1
How to Gloat about this election by an old time Freeper, JohnHuang2 .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3223389/posts
GOP dominates midterms, takes control of Senate
The Washington Post | 11-5-2014 | David A. Fahrenthold
Posted on 11/5/2014, 12:26:57 AM by JohnHuang2
Republicans scored a stunning electoral rout in the midterm elections, taking control of the U.S. Senate after a bitter campaign in which anger at Washington gridlock was turned against a president who took office promising to transcend it. Full article here
Tonight we saw nothing short of a historic outbreak of mass sanity across America. Sooooo, to gloat or not to gloat. That’s the question tonight. I’m leaning heavily against any gloating.
It’s not an easy decision because the shellacking the Democrats took across the country tonight — a magnificent display of Democrats’ Electile Dysfunction — presents such a target-rich environment.
For example, the contest in Arkansas. Here you’ve had what amounted to a family dynasty. It went down in flames tonight. But to top it all, Mark Pryor was brought down by a chap the media not long ago laughed off as having not a snowball’s chance in hell of winning! A 37-year-old Congressional freshman named Tom Cotton beating a Pryor? In Arkansas? Ha, no way. But am I going to gloat over it, or even mention it? Nope.
Speaking of losers running on big family names, Michelle Nunn (Senate candidate) and Jason Carter (Gubernatorial candidate) similarly went down in flames in Georgia tonight. But I’m not gonna gloat about it nor even mention the fact that the experts were confidently predicting the Senate race would definitely head to a run-off. David Perdue winning outright? Against a Nunn? In Georgia? Not gonna happen.
Nor will you hear a peep from non-gloating me about the drubbing Democrats received in Colorado’s Senate race tonight. The Democrat incumbent, Sen. Mark Uterus, flogged the “war on women” meme throughout the Campaign. He fancied himself being able to rouse that dead horse to victory. This was, after all, the meme that was supposed to be the Democrats’ silver bullet because it worked for Obama, whose reelection was saved at the last minute by a woman named Hurricane Sandy.
Unfortunately for the Democrats in Colorado, there was nothing to save the world-renowned expert on female genitalia from defeat at the hands of Cory Gardner. But! Since I’m not gloating, no mention of any of this from me.
Indeed, if I were gloating, I would definitely mention the GOP upset victory in North Carolina, but I’m not. Here again, experts insisted that Kay Hagan had victory in the bag even though her polls sucked. Democrats bragged that the high turnout of early voters would seal Thom Tillis’s fate. “I think we’ve got the momentum,” Hagan proclaimed over the weekend. But, again, you won’t hear me gloat nor even mention any of this once.
I suppose I could gloat about Wendy Davis’s shellacking in Texas (but I won’t). She was supposed to turn Texas purple if not blue on the basis that she held up passage of a measure against late-term abortions. She became an instant heroine to the abortion lobby. Vogue magazine featured her on its cover. The Abortion Barbie raised over a million bucks in mere weeks after her pro-abort filibuster. Liberals were certain that being pro-abortion and making fun of people in wheelchairs were winning formulas in Texas. She lost by 20 points to a guy in a wheelchair. But if you thought I was going to gloat about it or even mention it, you’d be mistaken.
In fact, not gonna mention Gov. Scott Walker winning reelection in Wisconsin nor Joni Ernst becoming Iowa’s first female U.S. Senator after trouncing Bruce “Bailey”. Since I’m not gloating, my lips are also sealed about Pat Roberts winning reelection in Kansas and Steve Daines winning in Montana and Mike Rounds winning in South Dakota and Shelley Moore Capito winning in West Virginia and Mia Love becoming the first African-American GOP Congresswoman.
Oh, one more thing . . .
Harry Reid — you’re fired! Heh, heh, heh! I’m still not gloating though! Honest!
Anyway, that’s ...
My Two Cents
“JohnHuang2”
so tired of their calling it a Voter Suppression Law... in reality, it is a Voter PROTECTION Law... photo i.d. protects my vote as a US citizen... photo i.d. values my vote... lets it mean something... when non-citizens sneak in votes, or when someone votes more than once—that takes away the worth of my vote... so i am calling these laws VOTER PROTECTION LAWS...
Investigate Virginia.
No more same-day registration. How’s that for suppression?
Or—they could spend the time, effort and money to get the IDs they need to protect their votes. But then they wouldn’t be able to cheat, so let’s make it easier to cheat.
That’s odd - they asked to see my driver’s license when I voted, and it didn’t bother me a bit.
mebbe if they took your photo when you register, and when you vote (to keep it updated), you wouldn’t have to show an id. they can either have interactive laptops connected to the voter database, or printouts of the photos.
His real complaint, if he were truthful: “The voter ID laws make it difficult for our ineligible voters to illegally vote, and for our eligible voters to vote multiple times in the same election”.
2. Show photo ID
3. Vote
(now that wasn't too difficult, was it?)
if showing your id to vote is cumbersome,
then buying alcohol at the grocery store is cumbersome,
buying cigarettes is cumbersome,
renting a car is cumbersome,
booking a motel/hotel room is cuumbersome,
driving is cumbersome,
opening a bank account or using a check cashing business is cumbersome,
getting utilities for your home or apartment is cumbersome,
geting into most federal buildings is cumbersome,
getting govt benefits is cumbersome.
travelling on a plane or boat is cumbersome.
why has the media not harped on all the other daily things people need a photo id for, and discussed how hard just regular life is for people without id? how unfair it is they have to have photo id to buy alcohol, smokes, financial services, driving? how unfair life is because they can’t do all this without id? why is it only that voting is cumbersome, yet they ignore all these other areas?
we know why. the argument is bogus. there is no cumbersome burden to show id.
Democrat “Voter Suppression” = Illegal aliens were stopped from voting.
I was an observer at a polling place next to a university. 99% of the voters that came in were students.
Early voting in NC is limited to libraries mainly and some other central locations so they can condense multiple polling places into one location. The funny part is that on actual election day, these former early vote locations are now converted to specific polling places so you can’t just show up and vote there just because you voted at the library in the spring. You have to check your registration card and vote at YOUR SPECIFIED POLLING PLACE! DUH! Saw many students turned away and told to go to the correct place. This is the new law, you must vote in your correct location. If you are too fricking dumb or lazy to check where you have to vote, then you should not vote.
Its funny to see that early voting actually bit the dems in the ass!
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