McDaniel's tantrum - Good read indeed

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Highlights

Calling the recent runoff election a “sham,” candidate Chris McDaniel asked supporters to fund a legal challenge to overturn the election results. “"Thanks to illegal voting from liberal Democrats, my opponent stole last week’s runoff election,” said a McDaniel campaign email to supporters.

McDaniel and his backers are like the proverbial fish that doesn’t know it’s wet; they swim so deeply in their right-wing milieu that the idea that they could lose an election fairly doesn’t cross their mind.

When those with a history of racial insensitivity - like McDaniel and True the Vote - start sputtering that an election marked by turnout increases in mostly-black counties is “illegal” or “stolen,” it shows that the fight for full voting rights isn’t done yet. The spectacle of conservatives trying to nullify an election because they didn’t like the electorate sends a strong message.

Five decades after the Civil Rights Act, a century and a half after the passage of the 15th Amendment, we’re still having to defend the idea that black votes count just as much as white ones, that candidates whose margin of victory comes from black voters really did win.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/chris-mcdaniel-s-election-tantrum-is-more-than-sore-loserdom

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