Did someone request a protest song?
Just in case you were wondering if Eminem wasn't as clever as he used to be, he comes out with this new video. Given the setup, and how it progresses, the ending is pretty spectacular, and sadly close to the truth in a lot of cases.
It's sad that this year in many battleground states the Dem strategy is to register as many voters as possible, and the GOP strategy, from Florida to Ohio, is to deny as many people the right to vote as they can. According to Ezra, MTV doesn't want to air this video. They can go fuck themselves.
It's sad that this year in many battleground states the Dem strategy is to register as many voters as possible, and the GOP strategy, from Florida to Ohio, is to deny as many people the right to vote as they can. According to Ezra, MTV doesn't want to air this video. They can go fuck themselves.
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Well, that's a cheap shot that ignores a larger problem. The GOP isn't denying anyone the right to vote, they're simply leery of people voting *illegally* or fraudelentally. As well they should be. The Demos seem to be using any and all shady tactic and illegality to "register" voters.
From telling voters to lie about "voter intimidation" even if none happened, to Demo hotspots having more registered voters than citizens, to the so-shady-it-hurts rules of "provisional balloting," to keeping polls open late for busloads of voters, to rumors of buying votes with crack, money, god-knows-what, to Democratic 527s registering exhorbitanly large amounts of new voters with incomplete or falsified registration forms, to Democratic initiatives and scare tactics that make it "voter suppression" to ask voters for ID or proof of citizenship!
The Democrats seem to follow that great joke in Citizen Kane. When Kane runs for governor and loses, he immediately orders his papers to run the headline, "Fraud at Polls!"
First off, the thing about screaming voter intimidation even if none exists is bullshit. What was actually said was that people should be aware of the possibility of voter intimidation so that if and when it occurs (see Florida 2000, Eminem video) they can be prepared for it and prepared to overcome it. That's perfectly legitimate and, I think, necessary.
As for counties with more registered than eligible voters, I've read that that is a fairly standard thing when people move away and the county is lazy about updating the rolls, or the person either doesn't re-register in their new home, or the place where they re-register is lazy about contacting the old county. Long story short it doesn't at all necessarily mean voter fraud. I guess I don't know for sure about that, maybe it's bunk, but it's nothing like the concrete examples of Republicans trying to trash Dem registrations.
Meanwhile the GOP is trying to throw out registration forms for being printed on the wrong paper weight, even though it doesn't matter, and still playing games with the felon lists in Florida. It's a little bit shameless actually. The only reason these things are being caught, as they were in Ohio, and those people are being allowed to vote, is precisely because people are on the lookout for it.
Here's a post from kos with a pretty good summary of one particular Republican funded group working against voter registration.
Here's the thing: it really isn't up for debate whether or not the 2000 election was stolen. From felon lists to sobriety checks, Florida was heavily and intentionally weighted against Gore. Nobody would have noticed if the election hadn't hinged in such an incredible way on Florida, and even so it's still safe to say that almost nobody noticed. So I don't think it's unreasonable for Democrats to be pretty on their toes about the dirty tricks the boys from Texas might be up to this time. They've made it abundantly clear they don't car to play fair.
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