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NYT: “New State Rules Raising Hurdles at Voting Booth”

Above is the headline at the New York Times where the Voice of the Left (VOL) asserts that voter identification laws and a few other Republican-sponsored *gasp* measures pose an enormous burden on voters attempt to register and cast ballots.

Remarkably, it takes until paragraph 6 until they correctly point out that the Supreme Court ruled that strict photo identification requirements as found in Indiana (despite no record of evidence of fraud in the record) were a slight and perfectly reasonable burden “hurdle” to voters.

“The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law in 2008, saying that while it found no evidence of the fraud the law was intended to combat, it also found no evidence that the new requirements were a burden on voters.”

To be more specific that the NY Times, the Supreme Court did say that while the record in the Indiana cases contained no evidence of voter impersonation at polling places, such fraud had occured in other parts of the country, and that Indiana’s own experience with voter fraud in a 2003 mayoral primary demonstrated a real risk that voter fraud could affect a close election’s outcome.  

NYT: In Politics in South, The Race Divide is Defining

At the NYTimes, a discussion on the disappearance of white Democrats in Mississippi, a trend seen across the South.  This is really an amazing article which spells out how old-line traditional Democrats with traditional power voting blocs in the South have been slowly whittled down for decades and the remnants of the old coalitions are finally throwing in the towel.   

“At a glance, Democrats may seem to be in better shape here than they are in neighboring states. Republicans won a supermajority in the Alabama Legislature in the 2010 elections and took over the Louisiana Legislature a month later as a result of several party switches, while Mississippi Democrats still control the State House of Representatives. Unlike in Louisiana, Democrats in Mississippi have actually managed to field candidates for a few statewide offices in this year’s elections, and hold the office of attorney general.

But the tale told by demographics is a stark one. Mississippi has, proportionally, the largest black population of any state, at 37 percent. Given the dependably Democratic voting record of African-Americans here, strategists in each party concede that Democrats start out any statewide race with nearly 40 percent of the vote.   That is a remarkable head start. And yet Brad Morris, a Democratic strategist, is being optimistic when saying this: “We’ve hit rock bottom.”


Simply put, the votes Democrats count on automatically may be the only ones they can get.”

It appears many are starting to concude that the racial based redistricting and the push for proportional voting for groups (sometimes caused by the federal government itself) is having an unintended but predictable result – even more polarized voting and racial bloc voting. 

“The facts speak for themselves,” said Dick Molpus, a Democrat and a former secretary of state. “This is a racial divide by political party, and it does not bode well for our future.”

A note about radio and tv schedule

First, there have been emails directed lots of places for bookings for Injustice.  Over on the left side of the webpage is the contact for the publicity department at Regnery Publishing.  They will be happy to help.

Second, I will endeavor to post most of the radio appearances for Injustice, but it will be hard to post all of them as they sometimes happen at the last moment, etc.