"Democrats Using Voting Rights Issues to Protect Senate Majority"

[applegrove]

Democrats Using Voting Rights Issues to Protect Senate Majority

by Beth Reinhard at the National Journal

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/democrats-using-voting-rights-issues-to-protect-senate-majority-20130801

"SNIP..............................


Without President Obama's name on the ballot, Democrats and civil rights leaders increasingly view voting rights as a rallying cry that could boost minority participation in key midterm Senate races in 2014.

Facing a challenging election landscape in which African-American and Hispanic turnout typically dips, Democrats are seizing on Republican attempts to pass voter identification laws and the Supreme Court's ruling that Congress rewrite the landmark law protecting minority voting rights. Attorney General Eric Holder is suing the state of Texas to continue monitoring its electoral laws and districts. Civil rights leaders, who met with Holder and President Obama at the White House on Monday, are launching a massive voter registration drive next month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.

And the lobbying offshoot of the Obama campaign, Organizing for Action, is alerting supporters about a new "voter suppression" bill in North Carolina, poised to be the latest Republican-led state to require voters to show photo identification.

Party strategists acknowledge there's as much of a political component to the activism in addition to the concerns over GOP-backed legislation.

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[tularetom]

1. Why do these articles always imply that the Dems are doing something sleazy?

And why do Democrats always sort of admit that they are?

Of course they want to protect their senate majority. WTF is wrong with that?

You'd never catch a republican party strategist "acknowledging...a political component".

[RGinNJ]

2. Of course they are,

isn't that what we do in America vote. How can the system work if all who are willing to have their voice heard can't.