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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (207835)11/7/2012 5:01:08 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) of 541006
 
My hope is that the dismal track record of voter suppression in the courts coupled with its obvious ability to provoke higher turnouts in "revenge" actually lessens the suppression antics next time around. It's just pouring gasoline on the fire at this point because it is watched so closely and gets so much media attention.

Someone else kind of agrees:

A Theory Behind the GOP Losses

Andrew Cohen: "May I suggest instead a simple, elegant overriding theory on why we won't have a Romney Administration in 2013? No serious political party in America -- no legitimate party in any viable democracy -- can win an election by suppressing votes. So long as the Republican Party endorses (and enacts) voting laws designed to make it harder for registered voters to vote, so long as Republican officials like Ohio's Jon Husted contort themselves to interpret those laws in a restrictive fashion, the Republicans will continue to play a loser's game."

"That's my theory, anyway, and I'm sticking to it. Having covered for the past two years the voting rights front in this epic election cycle, I have come to believe that the Republicans will begin to win presidential elections again only when they start competing for votes with the substance of their ideas."
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