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Montgomery. Selma. Harrisburg. The good guys always win in the end, if they keep their eyes on the prize.
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There is NOT one who is good except, GOD.
For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.— FocusTruthFully- Heh.
Hilarity always ensues when Will throws out the red meat to our much beloved Attytood Republian toadies and libertarian extremists.— Talking point sleuth 
Bunch, you really know how to throw salt in the wound. Don't you know how bad of a year it's been for Goober Nation already?— wokmaster- Even though the Supreme Court did not decide the overall issue, the important part of their decision is finding that voting is a "fundamental right" protected by the Constitution. As such, the burden shifts to the Commonwealth to assure that no legitimate voter be disenfranchised. Obviously, the Commonwealth could not do so, and could not even give one example of voter fraud. As long as the law allows time to secure an ID, and doesn't impose restrictive conditions in getting ID, there should be no problem. But this attempt in Pennsylvania was clearly restrictive and grounded in politics, for which the Republicans should answer at the polls.— lport
- God also laughs,
He see's into the heart of all mankind.
He also grieves,
mankind has rejected HIM.
— FocusTruthFully - I'm a Democrat, and although not as extreme as some posters on here, I don't see the connection between the Voter ID and Selma. You already have the right to vote. It's not like you were fighting FOR anything. I don't have a problem with showing an ID, and I don't see what the big deal was. Hopefully we do have some sort of Voter ID in the future.— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver
- Also a Democrat and I agree with you. I have no problem showing a photo ID when I show up at the polls. My problem with this wave of Voter ID bills across the country is in the execution.
No politician that I know of ran on this as an important plank in their campaign. So what's the rush. Pass the law, implement a REAL outreach effort to make sure all that need them can get them, then and only then, make the ID's mandatory.
This seems like a common sense compromise position to me. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of common-sense employed in the modern political process. - Obviously you are a Democrat, but are not like modern Democrats. They're so hard up for a cause, they get delusional, and everything becomes like Selma, Vietnam, or Jim Crow.
— jmc - ==]] I'm a Democrat, and although not as extreme as some posters on here, I don't see the connection between the Voter ID and Selma. [[==
Do you understand that the law would likely have disenfranchised thousands, if not more, citizens? Do you realize that those disenfranchised would likely have been disproportionately minorities? Do you not see a connection to the battles related to voters rights for minorities?
Do you realize that the State was challenged to show evidence that validated "concern" about voter fraud?
Do you realize that evidence was presented in court demonstrating why this law presented a hardship to some voters, and that the State had no evidence to convince the judge otherwise?
I'm a Republican, but I can't support this kind of a law, in particular this close to an election. It makes the Republican Party look bad - as if we would be satisfied with a victory when legitimate citizens were blocked from exercising their voting rights. Maybe in the future, after the State takes appropriate steps to make acquiring IDs easier, this kind of a law would make sense.— Talking point sleuth - "I'm a Democrat, and although not as extreme as some posters on here, I don't see the connection between the Voter ID and Selma. "
Troll alert! Troll alert!
"I'm a Democrat, and I'm so ashamed of these commie-socialist-extremist freaks who think the poor, elderly, and disabled should have a right to vote...oh, and vote for Mitt Romney! (Opps, I didn't mean to say the last part out loud)"— Hamlet - If I were a Republican, I would write the same about extreme Rep posters. Not a troll, but I think some of the posters here are looney, both left and right. How is that "trolling"?
— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver - Why the heck do we have to register to vote, and why do I have to sign that book before I go into the booth? I'm an American, I should just be able to vote, no questions asked. You know, like the media with Obama, no questions asked.— jmc
- TPS, the Republicans and people who say they are "Democrats" but support the R's are going to be going crazy. Look at jmc. He says, "Why the heck do we have to register to vote, and why do I have to sign that book before I go into the booth?" rtying to mock people (who don't exist) with sarcasm when no one objected to present voting requirements in the first place.
They are going get more and more unhinged as November 6 draws near. Get the popcorn ready...— Hamlet - Heh.
71% of Republicans buy into the conspiracy theory that pollsters are rigging their polls to help out Obama. Only 13% of Republicans think that a conspiracy is not afoot.
It's as if believing in conspiracies is a requirement of being a member of the Republican Party.
The whining and sense of victimization is ubiquitous. Rather than admitting that their candidate's pandering to extremism is losing him support amongst the electorate, they'd rather just blame other people for their problems.
What's funny is that the more victim-whining they do, the less support they get from non-extremists and non toadies.
— Talking point sleuth
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