Thad Cochran’s victory shows voting rights well protected (Yes, he went there)

The Boston Globe ^ | June 29, 2014 | Jeff Jacoby

[cynwoody]

Mississippi (and no doubt other states') voting rights obviously need to be fixed.

Nobody who is not already registered in a party should be allowed to vote in the party's primary. And, should there be a runoff, nobody who didn't vote in the primary should be eligible to vote in the runoff.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The point he may NOT have been making is that the black voters seem to have no problem with voter ID laws, nor were they really in any way deterred from showing up to vote by the “Tea Party”.

Apparently, blacks can and do freely vote in elections in states where we have voter ID laws.

[cynwoody]

I think what Jacoby is saying, is that blacks were “oppressed” at all. They showed IDs and were able to vote. Granted, they voted for the RINO, but ironically they killed the voter ID hysteria from the Left.

That's accurate.

Jacoby has been the Boston Globe's resident conservative for many years. The illustration makes him look much younger than he actually is.

[livius]

“Voting rights” has always been another way of saying “cheating rights” for the left. It means the laws are either openly violated, ignored or taken advantage of in such a way that the leftist wins, and that the leftists have a right to do this. Anything to the contrary disenfranchises them, don’t you know?

[duffee]

I interpret jacoby is saying that these democrats got out and voted to reach across the aisle and join with republicans so we can all get along and that this is a good thing. While we know many of them and their leaders were paid to turnout, they were incensed by unfounded racial charges now the naacp and bennie thompson are demanding major federal spending as well as Voter ID being rescinded as further payment. These 40 thousand democrats will be back with their party in November and laughing about the turmoil and destruction in the republican party. The blame however is not with the democrats, it is with the RNSC, RNC, Mississippi and national gop, the Cochran campaign and thad’s handlers, the barbours and joe nosef the chairman of the Mississippi republican party.