2016 elections - because it's never too early

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe you don't.

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe you don't.

Just noticed the wrong link was posted.  I was initially going to go with a different article. I don't think that's what you're referring to though.

[Admiral Yi]

Fucking hard return Timmy.  Jesus.

[jimmy olsen]

Fucking hard return Timmy.  Jesus.

There's a space in that post.

[Valmy]

After reflected on the anger of voters, he decided he needed to read up on some rich yankee that's been dead nearly two hundred years?

So not only was he reading John Adams but he was also reading about a rich guy? Bet it was John Hancock.

[lustindarkness]

Fucking South

http://www.thenation.com/article/alabama-birthplace-of-voting-rights-act-once-again-gutting-voting-rights/

Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights

Alabama passed a strict voter-ID law and then closed 31 DMV offices in the state.

By Ari BermanTwitter

Yesterday 3:14 pm
It was Alabama that brought the country the Voting Rights Act (VRA) because of its brutality against black citizens in places like Selma. "The Voting Rights Act is Alabama's gift to our country," the civil-rights lawyer Debo Adegbile once said.

And it was a county in Alabama–Shelby County–that brought the 2013 challenge that gutted the VRA. As a result of that ruling, those states with the worst histories of voting discrimination, including Alabama, no longer have to approve their voting changes with the federal government.

After the Shelby County decision, Alabama's strict voter ID law, passed by the GOP legislature in 2011, was allowed to go into effect without federal approval. And now Alabama is making it much tougher to obtain the government-issued ID required to vote by closing 31 DMV locations in the state, many in majority-black counties. 

The state is shuttering DMV offices in eight of the 10 counties with the highest concentration of black voters. Selma will still have a DMV office but virtually all of the surrounding Black Belt counties will not. "Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed," writes John Archibald of the Birmingham News. "The harm is inflicted disproportionately on voters who happen to be black, and poor, in sparsely populated areas."

Alabama describes the closings as a cost-saving measure, but the impact has clear racial and political overtones. Writes Archibald:


Look at the 15 counties that voted for President Barack Obama in the last presidential election. The state just decided to close driver license offices in 53 percent of them.

Look at the five counties that voted most solidly Democratic? Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes and Bullock counties all had their driver license offices closed.

Look at the 10 that voted most solidly for Obama? Of those, eight—again all but Dallas and the state capital of Montgomery—had their offices closed.

This is the very type of voting change–one that disproportionately burdens African-American voters–that would have been challenged under Section 5 of the VRA, which the Supreme Court rendered inoperative. "The voices of our most vulnerable citizens have been silenced by a decision to close 31 license facilities in Alabama. #RestoreTheVOTE," tweeted Congresswoman Terri Sewell from Selma.

Approximately 250,000 registered voters in Alabama don't have a driver's license or acceptable form of voter ID. In the last election, a 93-year-old World War II veteran was turned away from the polls because of the new law. Only 41 percent of Alabamans voted in the 2014 election, the lowest turnout in the state in 28 years. •

Actually, the worst part of the state budget problems is they will close 15 ABC stores and increase the taxes on cigarretes. 

[Razgovory]

After reflected on the anger of voters, he decided he needed to read up on some rich yankee that's been dead nearly two hundred years?

So not only was he reading John Adams but he was also reading about a rich guy? Bet it was John Hancock.

I recently read a Biography of Washington and was surprised that late in life he identified with the Northerners over the Southerners.

[Lettow77]

So not only was he reading John Adams but he was also reading about a rich guy? Bet it was John Hancock.

Aww c'mon, he wasn't stylishly wealthy like Jefferson because he was a pinchfaced no-fun-allowed puritan, but he was still societal elite. Daddy was a tax collector and a harvard graduate, and the man himself was a big pants lawyer before he became one of the rulers of the land. 

I mean, dude got by.

[Valmy]

I recently read a Biography of Washington and was surprised that late in life he identified with the Northerners over the Southerners.

He spent all that time around New York during the Revolution and went native. Happens to the best of us. Of course Robert E Lee also spent years around New York and it didn't take.

[Berkut]

I recently read a Biography of Washington and was surprised that late in life he identified with the Northerners over the Southerners.

He spent all that time around New York during the Revolution and went native. Happens to the best of us. Of course Robert E Lee also spent years around New York and it didn't take.

Which is why Washinton >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>x infinity Lee.

[Valmy]

So not only was he reading John Adams but he was also reading about a rich guy? Bet it was John Hancock.

Aww c'mon, he wasn't stylishly wealthy like Jefferson because he was a pinchfaced no-fun-allowed puritan, but he was still societal elite. Daddy was a tax collector and a harvard graduate, and the man himself was a big pants lawyer before he became one of the rulers of the land. 

I mean, dude got by.

He might have been wealthy but he wasted all his productive years in public service. This wasn't as lucrative a career choice back in those days

[Phillip V]

New polls have Jindal losing to Clinton in Louisiana while Bush and Trump would win the state fine in the general election.

Has the state soured that bad on their own governor?  Time for him to drop out.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/

[jimmy olsen]

Two new polls. Pew seems much more credible to me, and if they're right JEB! is done.

Pew
   Trump 25, Carson 16, Fiorina 8, Rubio 8, Bush 4, Cruz 6, Kasich 1, Huckabee 2, Christie 1, Paul 2, Jindal 0, Santorum 0, Graham 1, Pataki 0

IBD/TIPP
   Trump 17, Carson 24, Fiorina 9, Rubio 11, Bush 8, Cruz 6, Kasich 4, Huckabee 2, Christie 2, Paul 3, Jindal 1, Santorum 0, Graham 0, Pataki 0

[DGuller]

Graham with 1?     Sorry, Tim, doesn't look like they're right.

[jimmy olsen]

Shots fired!