That certainly changed the whole course of elections.
I would say the bigger change occurred when all people could vote and not just land owners. Our problems today can be pointed to opening up voting to people who have not clue as to economics.
yes, gipper, when those who were not property owners and thus did not have a stake in the country were allowed to vote, that was another huge mistake.
Renters, not so much.
Ilgipper’s post is the real crux of the matter. It’s the existence of universal, unrestricted suffrage.
The big problem is uniformed, disengaged DULLARDS in concentrated population centers who blindly follow the paper messiahs who promise them (in the words of Jefferson) generous benefits from the public treasury.
Any uninformed person with a room temperature IQ (like those that the vulgarian Howard Stern interviewed last fall) should not be allowed to vote. The democrat party is dependent upon their existence and unfortunately there are far too many of them.