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Originally Posted by JPhillips
It isn't about making it impossible.
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You'll have to bring that up with Nol, he's on that trip...hook, line and sinker.
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The gal is to make it difficult enough that some small percentage says fuck it and doesn't register/vote. If a party can spend zero and reduce turnout by even a percentage point, it's a huge deal. There aren't many persuadable voters right now, the whole game is getting your voters out and keeping their voters home.
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Agreed. But if you tell people the facts. In 2010, registered whites was sitting at 66% and whites who voted was at 46% and registered blacks was sitting at 64% and black voters was at 44%, it's pretty damned close and nobody gets to fired up one way or the other. You have to emotionalize it and put a raci$t twist in there if you really want to mobilize more "fuck it" (i.e. apathetic/lazy) voters.
"It's not equal across the board because the Republicans are doing all this crazy racist shit!"
And all's fair in political warfare I guess, but don't tell me this shit is impossible (nol, I'm talking to you, buddy!) because it's not. It's really easy for a VAST MAJORITY of people. Vast as in 99.99%. As in, the numbers that can't get a photo ID are pretty irrelevant to the debate that this is some sort of national crisis affecting millions.