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Are Republicans the anti-democrat party?
Oct. 1st, 2008 08:02 amAnd I don't mean big-D democrats.
Maybe it derives from misquotes by reporters in Michigan and Ohio, but it seems likely that the GOP was considering challenging many voters whose homes had been foreclosed from voting. Add this to "your registration forms aren't on heavy enough paper" (Ohio), "let's not provide you with enough voting machines in poor districts" (Ohio), suspicious patterns of black overvotes (Florida), a history of challenging likely-Democrat voters on the drop of a hat, misleading phone calls lying about precints changing (Virginia, Ohio, New Mexico) and other voter intimidation tactics, and it really makes me wonder if the Republican party has officially committed itself to vote-suppression by whatever means possible. I mean, I know that they depend on higher voter-turnout than the Democrats, but if that's because Democrats don't care enough to get to the voting booths, that's one thing. (I found one case of misleading phone calls to Republicans in Pennsylvania, but other than that it seems to be a pretty one-sided thing. It could be the "liberal MSM" again, but I really doubt that).
The Democrats _used_ to be the party of graveyard voting (especially in Chicago), but my understanding is that the evidence suggests there is minimal such tactics going on today. And I don't feel like the Democrat-machine tries to suppress Republican votes the same way the GOP suppresses the Democrat ones. (ok, there's gerrymandering which has been taken to extremes, but both sides do that).
Maybe it derives from misquotes by reporters in Michigan and Ohio, but it seems likely that the GOP was considering challenging many voters whose homes had been foreclosed from voting. Add this to "your registration forms aren't on heavy enough paper" (Ohio), "let's not provide you with enough voting machines in poor districts" (Ohio), suspicious patterns of black overvotes (Florida), a history of challenging likely-Democrat voters on the drop of a hat, misleading phone calls lying about precints changing (Virginia, Ohio, New Mexico) and other voter intimidation tactics, and it really makes me wonder if the Republican party has officially committed itself to vote-suppression by whatever means possible. I mean, I know that they depend on higher voter-turnout than the Democrats, but if that's because Democrats don't care enough to get to the voting booths, that's one thing. (I found one case of misleading phone calls to Republicans in Pennsylvania, but other than that it seems to be a pretty one-sided thing. It could be the "liberal MSM" again, but I really doubt that).
The Democrats _used_ to be the party of graveyard voting (especially in Chicago), but my understanding is that the evidence suggests there is minimal such tactics going on today. And I don't feel like the Democrat-machine tries to suppress Republican votes the same way the GOP suppresses the Democrat ones. (ok, there's gerrymandering which has been taken to extremes, but both sides do that).
