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BumRushDaShow

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23. I'm sure the perpertrators of the bias

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Sun Jul 20, 2014, 10:37 AM

Jul 2014

would consider it "controversial" but the study is a tool in the toolbox needed to re-establish Sects. 4 & 5 the Voting Rights Act. "Experiencing discrimination" is part of the "historical" pile-on that is often cited in court and the Voting Rights Act was intended to address "historical" prejudices. In fact, the study underscores this infamous ditty uttered by the Majority leader ass right here in PA from back in 2012 -

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Objective Evidence Found That Voter ID Law Support is Racially-Motivated [View all] True Blue Door Jul 2014 OP

It'll only be a matter of time BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #1

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The fact that it happens at all BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #5

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Riiiiiight. True Blue Door Jul 2014 #10

Bzzt. Sorry wrong answer. BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #13

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I'm sure the perpertrators of the bias BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #23

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That should be the GOP's new slogan: "Not racist, just correlated with racism." True Blue Door Jul 2014 #7

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Nine percentage points is MASSIVE. True Blue Door Jul 2014 #11

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Why are you trying to justify anything except what it is? nt BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #15

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As a scientist BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #20

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Then we can agree to disagree BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #24

In other words, you'd rather call a USC professor incompetent True Blue Door Jul 2014 #19

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The results confirm a bias BumRushDaShow Jul 2014 #25

How can anyone know whether the results were actually due to english vs. spanish? Quantess Jul 2014 #3

The study was designed to unconfound any such potential effect. Jackpine Radical Jul 2014 #26

Wow. My first thought: the obvious needs a study? ananda Jul 2014 #8

While I know it's true anyway, the study could still be flawed Lee-Lee Jul 2014 #14

But those potential confounding effects would presumably be Jackpine Radical Jul 2014 #27

The USC study is a good study Gothmog Jul 2014 #18

Thanks to Gothmog and Jackpine Radical for their contributions to this thread. redqueen Jul 2014 #28

this is important stuff k and r dembotoz Jul 2014 #29