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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 03:49 PM Jun 2013

The VRA and FLA

It is not and accident that one of the areas now freed from the VRA is Hillsborough County Florida, aka Tampa, aka the place where the GOP had their party, aka a place that has gone for Obama in last two Presidential elections.

The GOP knows that Tampa is a swing part of a swing state. It has also been under the microscope for electoral misconduct and tomfoolery long before 2000, and especially so since 2000. Read the Tampa Bay times, and the article responses bring out people who actively call for violence against democratic voters, saying they should not vote as they are liberals/yankees/whatever.

We need to vote more than ever, but even more than that, we need to be willing to focus on the swing states, like my Tampa, like Ohio, because both of them have GOP governors and Senators that want to hand victory to the Koch Brothers on a platinum platter.

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