Posted on 05/14/2012 2:10:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The congregation repeated every word of the Rev. Jesse Jackson as if he were administering an oath.
“Revive easy access to voting,” Jackson said recently at the 93rd Street Community Baptist Church in Miami. “And stop voter suppression.”
Yup. It’s campaign season.
Cue the talk among liberals that conservatives are trying to rob Democrats of their votes.
This year’s target: A Republican election law, House Bill 1355, which cracks down on voter registration drives and eliminates early voting on the Sunday before Election Day.
A pain? Definitely.
But voter suppression? Not really.
Changing times
This isn’t Bull Connor siccing German shepherds on people. It’s also nothing like Florida’s Jim Crow-era constitutional provision denying former felons the right to vote in a state where more than half the prison population is black.
This is the Republican Party changing election-year rules to keep the voter-registration rolls from quickly growing more Democratic.
“I don’t see it as voter suppression,” said Daniel A Smith, a University of Florida political scientist who is studying the new law’s effects. “This is more an effort to constrain voter participation under the guise of fighting fraud.”
Smith points out that the data clearly show the elections law disproportionately affects black and Hispanic voters.
Meanwhile, partisan lines are forming over the state’s new effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters from the rolls. The state preliminarily identified 180,000 potential noncitizens — many of them black and Hispanic — but the final number of noncitizens on the voter rolls is likely to be much lower.
But there could be a more subtle problem for Democrats and President Barack Obama. It’s not so much “suppression.” It’s more like psychological “repression.”
Quite simply: Democrats have held themselves back from voting.
Case study
Consider what happened at Precinct 248, a polling station in the black neighborhood of 93rd Street Community Baptist church.
In 2008, 1,810 voters cast ballots — 83 percent of them for Obama.
In 2010, only 958 voters cast ballots — 71 percent for African-American Congressman Kendrick Meek in his failed U.S. Senate bid. That’s a drop of 47 percent.
What happened in between those two years?
Conservatives rallied. Democrats stayed home. There was no major change to “suppress” voters.
In 2006, liberal groups like the Brennan Center at New York University raised the specter of widespread voter disenfranchisement over a voter ID law that disproportionately affected minorities and young people. Those voters went on to flock to the polls and sweep the first black president into office.
Now, Democrats point out that, since HB 1355 passed last May, 81,000 fewer people registered to vote when compared to a comparable period in the 2008 election cycle.
Here’s what they’re not saying: The Democrats lost voters between 2008 and 2010, hemorrhaging 91,000 people. Again, that was before any new voter law was passed.
Also, the major voter-registration group ACORN disbanded, leaving the registration work up to smaller, third-party groups that now find it tougher to do their work because Republicans have moved the goal posts.
Regardless of those efforts. Democrats have a major edge. They have 443,000 more active voters than Republicans in a state of 11.3 million active voters.
If they’re excited and inspired and vote the party line, they’ll secure another term for Obama. Problem is, Obama isn’t — and perhaps can’t — offer the same type of inspiration he did in 2008. Unofficial surrogates like Jackson, who in Miami mentioned the racial riots and “martyrdom” of blacks far more than the word “hope,” aren’t broadcasting much of a positive message, either.
“One thing worse than slavery is to adjust to it,” Jackson said, acknowledging that voter apathy is a problem.
But so is spreading a negative message about “voter suppression.” Sure, it can fire up some voters, but it can leave others at home.
The message also conflicts with the one delivered by another black leader, Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Penelope Townsley, who spoke a few moments before Jackson.
“Voting,” she said, “has never been easier.”
Neither has delivering rhetoric from a pulpit.
Just like good little lemmings, they blindly followed the race baiter deeper into the abyss of government dependence.
If I were someone who liked to wager, I'd say there was probably very few BIBLE verses quoted and repeated by jagmo and his flock.
Especially 2 Thessalonians 3:10:
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
Or, perhaps, 1 Timothy 5:8:
If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
.......”Now, Democrats point out that, since HB 1355 passed last May, 81,000 fewer people registered to vote when compared to a comparable period in the 2008 election cycle.
Here’s what they’re not saying: The Democrats lost voters between 2008 and 2010, hemorrhaging 91,000 people. Again, that was before any new voter law was passed.
Also, the major voter-registration group ACORN disbanded, leaving the registration work up to smaller, third-party groups that now find it tougher to do their work because Republicans have moved the goal posts.
Regardless of those efforts. Democrats have a major edge. They have 443,000 more active voters than Republicans in a state of 11.3 million active voters.
If they’re excited and inspired and vote the party line, they’ll secure another term for Obama. Problem is, Obama isn’t — and perhaps can’t — offer the same type of inspiration he did in 2008. Unofficial surrogates like Jackson, who in Miami mentioned the racial riots and “martyrdom” of blacks far more than the word “hope,” aren’t broadcasting much of a positive message, either.”.....
This election is shaping up to be more fun by the (news)WEEK.
Why is it so tough to get people who wish to protect their right to vote,to simply register and show a valid ID?
Is Jackson and others admitting that these people are too stupid to qualify themselves to use this right?
What ‘suppression’, Rev. Jackass? Name someone...just one. One that’s telling the truth, of course.
I guess if they try to prevent those 180,000 illegals (just in Florida) from voting, it will be a huge scandal for the leftist MSM.
Almost 200,000 just in Florida and yet the MSM still wants to pretend that everything in hunky dory.
Yes.
The Left is just apathetic......right.....don't go thinking about how much fraud is, has been and will be going on -- don't think about the Fed's attacking states that have passed photo voter ID....nah....it's just apathy about Nov. 2012.
So... they were clearing the names of dead voters off the roles even before the law was passed?
That may well be the case.
Think about it: which would the Body Politic, (i.e., the interlocked Liberal Agenda Media (LAM), Democrats and RINOs), find easier to attack, marginalize and ignore?
1.) A single topic attack on them?
OR
2.) A multi-topic attack on them?
Now that their 80 + year Keynesian Rule of us has finally run out of money, we Financial Conservatives know that we have circled the prey and stand ready to attack.
AAHHHHHHRRRRLLLLWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Necessary to our attack is the attack from as many other types of Conservatives as possible. The more “hot-button” attacks, the better. Multi-pronged beats single-pronged attacks every time!
Presently the arrogant Democrats either ignore all Conservatives, try to marginalize us as “A vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy,” or accuse us of being villains, mainly through the Court of Public Opinion which is owned by the Liberal Agenda Media, (LAM).
My overarching point is that politicians come and go, political parties come and go, but the thinking that supports the idea that it is SANE to spend more money this year than was taken in as income last year remains entrenched in the policies of the Body Politic, which is the inter-dependant linkage of the LAM, Dems, RINOs, and most importantly you and I as voters.
Support and vote for who you want to, but before you do look into the eyes of your children and grandchildren and tell them that because of you voting or not voting, THEY will have to work a large part of each of their work days for the rest of their lives to pay back principle AND interest to the owners of US Federal Government Bonds that WE sold to give us OUR “Entitlements” of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Obama”care,” Unemployment payments to workers out of work, Food Stamps, Housing assistance to Illegal Aliens, Free Hospital “Emergency” Medical and Dental care to Illegal Aliens AND their extended families who continue to live permanently in Mexico, Aid to Dependent Children, No child Left Behind, Federal Aid to Education of Young Socialists, “Free” Student loans to future Federal politicians and bureaucrats, etc., etc., etc.
BTW, to put all of this into perspective, if you are now paying the very low rate of only 10 % Personal Federal Income Tax, then you are currently working every one of your workdays at 10 % X 8 hours = 0.8 hours X 60 minutes = 48 minutes of EVERY work day for The Federal Plantation located at 1600 Plantation Avenue, in the District of Corruption, USSA.
Those 48 minutes per work day feed the Federal Beast for only 60 % of each year, forcing the current Sheriff of Nottingham Timmy Gee to sell more Federal Bonds that HE says that YOUR grandchildren’s descendants will be more than happy to pay off.
Did I just describe a “Bond Bubble?” Obviously not as I am just a marginalized, and ignored member of “The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.”
Yep, Hilly said it before she became Obama’s Secretary of Statements. She knew that eventually we would conspire to replace The Body Politic with a system that works.
You know, the one our Founding Fathers came up with, and clearly specified in THE US CONSTITUTION.
May God Bless America, again. (This time let us not be allowed to take His blessings for granted).
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First Bachmann wins the Iowa Straw Poll. Then Romney wins the early count of the Iowa Caucuses, and within a shake of a lamb’s tail Santorum wins in the late count.
Now an FR article predicts that Ron Paul will have the majority of voting delegates from Iowa.
If Paul’s plan to cut 1 TRILLION dollars in year-to-year Federal spending, AND abolish 5 Federal Departments are the main reasons for Iowa Delegates to thaw out their opposition to Paul, then it might later be said that “as Iowa goes, so goes the Nation.”
BTW, “T” is for Texas, Tampa and those of us who are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!”
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Here are some more reasons to vote for Ron Paul in the remaining Primary elections:
1.) It will drive the Liberal Agenda Media (LAM) and their Rove-style political consultants NUTS!
2.) It will deny statistical support to Romney.
3.) It could result in an OPEN Convention in Tampa.
4.) It would irritate the snot out of the GOP-E.
5.) It will put the GOP-E on notice that we think that their RINO Party has done NOTHING since we sent 89 TEA Party men and women to the US Congress in 2010.
6.) An OPEN Convention is our ONLY chance of a successful DUMP ROMNEY campaign.
7.) A superb, true “Dark Horse” Republican Nominee needs an OPEN Convention to replace Romney.
BTW, did I mention the sheer joy of watching the GOP-Endorsers publicly eating crow?
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What the Liberal Agenda Media has never figured out, is that the 2012 National Election will be the last National Election where Campaign topics other than the National Debt will be debated again.
IOW, when the grim reaper of financial reality forces Federal Politicians in “both” parties to pay the US Bond owners before payments to our Entitlement recipients, it will terminate discussion on the main topics that we chatter about so far in 2012.
This National election is all about the money, your grandchildren’s descendant’s money.
Ron Paul is to old and to disliked as being different from what most voters picture a US President to look and sound like to win the Nomination.
HOWEVER, Ron Paul as an Anbody-but-Romney candidate in Tampa is our last, best chance to have an OPEN Convention in Tampa, and for that alone he deserves our Primary voter support.
Paul has soldiered on through this entire Primary Campaign. Let us help him establish a beachhead on the Shores of Tampa!
My Favorite Dark Horse was R Sc US Senator Jim DeMint, but I have been told by those in the know that Jim will not run for POTUS.
Fortunately, there are many other great potential nominees who would be far more acceptable to us than any of the Primary Candidates so far, but a “Dump Romney” action requires an OPEN Convention.
For those who object to Paul as a Nominee, then treat him as a tired old political soldier who will, with our help, win the Battle to achieve an OPEN Convention in Tampa.
THEN the delegates can win the War, and choose the best Nominee to solve our National Debt Problem.
Remember, this election is all about the money, your grandchildren’s descendant’s money - - - - .
What is the best way that you can use your Primary vote to help the financial future of YOUR descendants?
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