In an ideal Rethuglican world, only Rethuglicans (you know, the
angry white men "job creators" not the
"moochers") would be allowed to vote. In this election cycle, as in others, they're
actively engaged in voter suppression, whether through limiting voting days and hours, to restrictive voter ID laws, to plans to harass and intimidate people at the polls. One of the Democratic blocs they're targeting is
college students:
"In 2008, youth voter turnout was higher that it had been since Vietnam, and overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. This time around, the GOP isn't counting solely on disillusionment to keep the student vote down.
"In the last two years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed dozens of bills that erect new barriers to voting, all targeting Democratic-leaning groups, many specifically aimed at students. The GOP's stated rationale is to fight voter fraud. But voter fraud -- and especially in-person fraud which many of these measures address -- is essentially nonexistent."
If any collection of goons and thugs masquerading as a political party ever deserved a shellacking at the polls, this New Confederate/ Republican party deserves the Mother of All Shellackings.
