Classic Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe on the continuing fever by liberals over Citizens United.

It’s strange that liberal Democrats should still be so obsessed with
Citizens United. Yet obsessed they are, as Representative Ed Markey of
Massachusetts confirmed last week, when he resurrected the Dred Scott comparison during a campaign speech in Pittsfield.

Markey told voters that he is running to replace John Kerry in the
Senate “in order to fight for a constitutional amendment to repeal
Citizens United. . . . The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed; we
have to repeal Citizens United.” Critics pounced. Markey’s Democratic
rival, US Representative Stephen Lynch, rebuked Markey for likening a
campaign-finance case to the infamous 1857 decision that “perpetuated
the horror of slavery.”

 Link.  “It doesn’t matter how many supervisors of elections complain that their small Florida counties don’t need 14 days of early voting and can’t pay for them, 14 days should be the law say Senate Democrats.”

What else is new?  Minnesota Public Radio.

According to the Elon University poll conducted in North Carolina, 77% of citizens making under $25,000 support voter ID with only 22% opposing.  Those citizens the Democrats claim have the most problems are the most supportive. 

Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press this Sunday (at minute 3:40 at the link) shows how little he knows of voting issues:

“there is a heck of a lot of voter suppression around the country even in Democratic district and Republican districts…..because Secretaries of State control where the voting booths are and who gets to vote under what circumstances, we ought to change that.

And he wants to give the power of location of polling booths to who?  the federal government?  Tom Brokaw should stick with the World War II greatest generation nostalgia and not try to opine on why Section 5 may still remain relevant today.  After 50 years in the press and politics business, he really has no clue on the fundamentals of elections.  He should do a documentary to educate himself.  I doubt he can point to Secretaries of State across the country that actually choose the location of polling places in counties or cities much less where the voting booths will be located within a polling place like some fashion designer. 
The Left really has no idea that elections are essentially a local issue run by local election officials.  More importantly, the determination on who is eligible or ineligible to vote is largely one determined by the state constitution or duly passed individual state laws.  So again contrary to the wisdom of Mr. Brokaw, Secretaries of State have little to do with the eligibility of voters set by the state legislatures or state constitutions.  Tom Brokaw has been hanging around the MSNBC studios too long.

It didn’t take Washington D.C. bureaucrats to figure out how to shorten voting times in Miami-Dade.  Shorten the ballot.  Miami Herald reports on plans to cap the number of ballot questions.  The other solution to not waiting in long lines to vote in some places? Vote on election day.

Lessons from Sandy.

Link to poll.  According to Elon, it appears that photo ID will have smooth sailing in North Carolina. 

Rick Hasen’s Election Law Blog has posted a study quantifying that southerners are more racist.  Heady stuff.

“The MRP model suggests that the six fully covered states in the South are, by our measure, six of the seven most prejudiced in the nation. . . . our findings are not entirely unexpected, other ways of aggregating the NAES prejudice questions, or of modeling responses, may yield different rankings of the states (to say nothing of other ways of measuring prejudice). We will present additional results at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in April.”

Link to Professor Hasen’s blog with the data establishing southerners are more racist can be found here.

GAB link.