[justiceseeker93]

Democrats have feared for years that one of the particular challenges of running campaigns in 2012 would be simply locating their voters. The party’s constituencies (young people, immigrants, minorities) tend to be among the most mobile demographic groups. And as NPR speculated this week in an analysis of battleground-state foreclosure figures, the housing crisis will likely only have made things more difficult for Democrats looking for their supporters.

Obviously the title of the article is sarcastic, so I can't help but feeling a sense of Schadenfreude at the Democrats' problems in this regard.

Democrats in government at all levels tend to calculate, formulate and enact policy with their chances in the next election foremost in mind.

But in this instance, their housing and economic policies seem to have boomeranged on them, creating this situation where they are having big-time problems locating their voters. The law of unintended consequences!

You can bet that Milwaukee isn't the only big city where this is happening.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

In Wisconsin, one can register at the polls. Guess what happens election night?

[Eleutheria5]

Enh. They’ll just find surrogates from among illegal immigrants. What’s good for the dead is good for the missing. Make sure every vote counts.

[American Constitutionalist]

Yes, perhaps some of them had to move south where the jobs moved to in areas that tend to be more conservative, therefore diluting their vote.