Toro
Diamond Member
Blacks voted overwhelmingly for Obama both times. In return they have suffered more during this economy than whites. Most blacks are socially conservative and are horrified at the gay marriage business. Recall that black churches were instrumental in defeating the ballot measure in CA.
So having been screwed financially, having been promised a bunch of stuff that still hasnt been delivered on, having their values crapped all over, will blacks get the idea that Democrats are the party to exploit them and at least stay home on election day?
Republican efforts to suppress the vote probably obviates any issues with Obama for blacks.
The Republican Party has continuously won a lower share of the minority vote for much of the past decade. Until the party figures that out - and most Republicans here have not - then all minorities, including blacks, won't abandon the Democrats any time soon.
You're from Canada, aren't you? You do worse at "suppressing" your own vote than we do. You actually do need to have valid ID which PROVES that you're a citizen of Canada to vote there.
The US has hosted foreign election observers to witness US elections and this has been the response of these foreign officials. From Foreign Policy Magazine:
"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to any other country. This system is built according to trust and this trust needs a lot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it," Elabbar said.
The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots.
STOP OPPRESSING PEOPLE IN CANADA. ABANDON YOUR VOTER ID LAWS. LET PEOPLE VOTE ON THEIR WORD ALONE.
What does any of this have to do with Republicans suppressing the vote?
You understand it's not about voter ID laws. If it were, Republicans would support stopping voting by mail, which is much more open for abuse than voter ID. But because old people and the military are Republican voters, they don't.
Republicans are rank hypocrites on this. I have no problem with voter ID laws. But I don't know why this practice wouldn't apply to all voters. Republicans don't care if the people who vote for them don't need it.
I don't think you have anything to say aboot it T.
I'm a registered Republican.