So much for the narrative that Voter ID is a war against poor minorities – because they support it more than whites according to a Marist poll for McClatchy. Nobody tell Rachel Maddow.
Here is the poll. Page five shows minority support for Voter ID at 83%. White support, 82%. Low income support: 84%. Higher income support: 82%.
Ok, so the delta’s are small, 1% and 2% respectively. What isn’t small is the aggregate support across all demographics. This is the battleground the Voter ID opponents and voter fraud deniers have chosen to fight on. Marshaling 16% of voters is hardly a rational way to mobilize the base for the 2014 elections, which of course is the only reason they have picked this fight – for politics. Let’s see if the voter fraud deniers and voter ID opponents blow a retreat from the fight when they absorb more data on what American’s really believe.
If you pay attention to how much of the people polled were minorities, you’d see out of the total of 1100 (roughly) only 11-13% were black. 70% were white, so it’s a bit of a lead to say that most of the minorities support it when their spread was so low.