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In reply to the discussion: VIDEO: Young People Fight Back Against Voter Suppression in Ohio [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)9. GOP Nightmare, Right There
DJ from Cleveland State? His vote counts just as much as Rush Limbaugh's or Mitt Romney's. Some in the Republican party can't accept that. It's why people like Chris Christie and Lindsey Graham are really going to go after the conservative extremists after this election: they know that Obama changed the voting culture, and that they're increasingly at risk if folks like this organize and vote.
The ironic and almost delicious thing is that this is also Karl Rove's legacy. He engineered the greatest disenfranchisement campaign in modern American history in 2004, and the GOP is going to be suffering the effects of that for many cycles.
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What gets me is when you see a neighborhood like this represented by a Republican....
Spitfire of ATJ
Nov 2012
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