Can Obama scare supporters to the polls?

Fox News ^ | April 14, 2014 | Chris Stirewalt

[2ndDivisionVet]

MSNBC host Al Sharpton is back at the White House today, this time for a Holy Week prayer breakfast with President Obama and dozens of faith leaders. Sharpton’s arrival comes just two days after Obama embraced the controversial activist and former FBI informant at a New York event hosted by the liberal broadcaster. Obama used the Sharpton event to accuse Republicans of trying to reverse the 1965 Voting Rights Act and intentionally suppress black voters with state laws requiring voters to show identification. “The real voter fraud is those that try to deny our rights by making arguments about voter fraud.” Obama compared the ID laws to the Jim Crow restrictions of the segregated South and cast himself as a modern-day civil rights leader. It may not wash with most voters, but will it be enough to frighten the Democratic base into action?

[WSJ: “[A blueprint first sketched out by a Yale University law student four years ago], which seized on a mostly ignored provision of the 1965 [Voting Rights] law, has become the government's strategy for challenging states it believes are enacting discriminatory voting laws, including North Carolina and Texas.”]

It worked before - While liberals may be enthused that the president is back to attacking Republicans on matters of race, it’s not a risk-free path. The administration discovered the dangers of ham-handed outreach last week with a botched effort to alarm the single, female voters on whom Democrats rely. After getting pasted over their pay-equity gambit, though, the Obama Democrats are showing no reticence about applying blunt political force to sensitive topics, this time on race. But as campaign watchers learned in 2012, audacious negativity is not something of which Team Obama is afraid. In fact, the forecast for the coming election is increasingly negative and hostile....

[VanDeKoik]

2006 was more 2nd-term fatigue of Bash, and genuinely rotten GOP leadership in both houses. Also, the Iraq war didnt help things.

[ripley]

“The dead will be voting in droves.”

Not to mention all the psychotic junior-high-schoolers who vote early, often, and with multiple names.

IMHO

[Mr. K]

He should have said “We all know you’all are too stupid to get ID”

[Obadiah]

And all of this would not be possible — at all — without the consent and support of the corrupt MSM. This is how Democrats have a huge and unfair advantage, because the biased MSM actively covers for Democrats and any time a Republican does anything they are universally nailed to the wall with scathing criticism, but Democrats get away with murder — literally (see Benghazi).

[Paine in the Neck]

[Siegfried X]

The problem is not “suppression”. Rather, according to a recent Obama speech and Bloomberg article, the percentage of blacks who vote in mid-term elections is 20% lower than in presidential elections. In other words staying home is simply a choice some voters make, but Obama and the Democrats are lying about suppression in order to motivate those voters.

[Pollster1]

Can Obama scare supporters to the polls?

We know he can scare decent Americans to the polls. If he can't scare his supporters there too, November is going to be glorious.

[17th Miss Regt]

MSNBC host Al Sharpton is back at the White House today

Is he still alive? No cement overshoes? Where's the mob when you really need them?

[Coldwater Creek]

I am in the last stages of a rare lung disease, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.