I struggle to comprehend black voters support of democrats. If you look at the black unemployment number, decline in family income and lower home ownership rates since Obama was elected, support for democrats looks foolish.
WASHINGTON — The confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama
contained a blunt warning for Democrats. Written this month with an eye
toward Election Day, it predicted “crushing Democratic losses across
the country” if the party did not do more to get black voters to the
polls.
“African-American
surge voters came out in force in 2008 and 2012, but they are not well
positioned to do so again in 2014,” Cornell Belcher, the pollster, wrote
in the memo, dated Oct. 1. “In fact, over half aren’t even sure when
the midterm elections are taking place.”
Mr.
Belcher’s assessment points to an urgent imperative for Democrats: To
keep Republicans from taking control of the Senate, as many are
predicting, they need black voters in at least four key states. Yet the
one politician guaranteed to generate enthusiasm among African Americans
is the same man many Democratic candidates want to avoid: Mr. Obama.
LA MESA, Calif. - A local couple called 10News concerned after they
received an envelope from the state's Obamacare website, Covered
California. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a
registration card pre-marked with an "x" in the box next to Democratic
Party.
The couple – who did not want their identity revealed –
received the letter and voter registration card from their health
insurance provider Covered California, the state-run agency that
implements President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Actually, he seems to be trying to trick them into thinking it's a requirement. I wonder why he doesn't want to make voter registration part of the gun background check?
The 61-page online Obamacare draft application for health
care includes asking if the applicant wants to register to vote,
raising the specter that pro-Obama groups being tapped to help Americans
sign up for the program will also steer them to register with the
Democratic Party.
On page 59, after numerous questions about the applicant’s identity
and qualification for Obamacare, comes the question: “Would you like to
register to vote?” The placement of the question could lead some to
believe they have to register to vote to get health care.
In the introduction of the document,
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services declare: “This
document-the ‘questionnaire’-represents each possible item that may need
to be asked for successful eligibility determinations.”
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch is at it again. The Democrat
who presided over a 2010 vote casting and counting scandal in the tight
race for governor was caught on video Friday guaranteeing Democratic
U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy a big result in the state’s
largest city–even if it takes days to count.
Bridgeport provided a crucial and dubious margin of victory to
Democratic and Working Families Governor Dannel P. Malloy in 2010 amidst
unprecedented chaos at the city’s polling places. The 2010 Bridgeport
assault on democracy included photocopied ballots, altered hours at
polling places, a mysterious bag of votes and Finch’s abuse of the
city’s emergency notification system to increase turnout on Election
Day.
Murphy, locked in a dead heat with Republican Linda McMahon, needs
the grimy Bridgeport Guarantee. He got it from Finch on Friday while
visiting small businesses in the poverty-wracked city. A laughing Finch
boasts even if it takes a couples of days to get the results,”You can be
guaranteed you’re going to get the vote.” Two years after the 2010
fiasco, it remains no laughing matter to the rest of Connecticut.
You might call our system “Third World,” but that would be an insult to the Third World. As Fund and von Spakovsky note, to register to vote in Mexico a voter must provide a photo, a signature and a thumbprint. The Mexican voter-registration card includes holographic security, a magnetic code and a serial number. Before voting, voters have to show the card and have the thumbprints matched by a scanner.
Similar safeguards apply in many other countries, along with simple precautions to prevent repeat voting (remember those Iraqis with purple thumbs?) that America lacks.
In the United States, meanwhile, only 17 states even require identification in order to vote. Holder & Co., claim that requiring photo ID would be racist, because getting a driver’s license, etc., costs money. This claim has consistently been rejected by courts, and with good reason: If requiring photo ID to vote is racist, then what about requiring photo ID to exercise other constitutional rights, like buying a gun? More here.
PHOENIX (AP) — An appeals court upheld a requirement in a 2004 Arizona law that voters show identification before they can cast ballots, saying that there wasn’t evidence that the mandate disproportionately affected Latinos as the challengers had alleged.
A 12-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling Tuesday that there was evidence Arizona has racially polarized voting and a history of discrimination against Latinos, but concluded no proof was offered to show that the ID requirement gave Latinos fewer opportunities to vote.
The court, however, found that the federal National Voter Registration Act trumps another section of the Arizona law that requires people to prove their citizenship in order to vote.
That federal law allows voters to fill out a mail-in voter registration card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn’t require them to show proof as Arizona’s law does.
Rhode Island is giving out free photo ID's in preparation of implementation of their voter ID law. AG Eric Holder has moved to block voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina. Holder is nowhere to be seen in Rhode Island.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island officials are stepping up efforts to give residents free voter identification cards as the state's April 24 presidential primary draws closer.
Secretary of State Ralph Mollis says officials plan to provide IDs during stops in Lincoln on Tuesday and Wednesday. Visits to Warren, Portsmouth and Warwick are set for later in the week.
A new state law asks voters to show government-issued identification at the polls.
The state is providing free IDs to voters who lack a driver's license, U.S. passport, military ID or other government-issued identification.
The DOJ and many liberal organizations claim requiring a photo ID to vote is discriminatory. They clam many people don't have them. These organizations are obviously much less concerned about that when it comes to their own properties.
Voter ID laws are wrong because they are discriminatory against dogs. The dog, Buddy, fits the demographic of a democratic voter. He doesn't pay any federal income taxes and is hoping for a free government handout (of dog treats).
(TPM)- A Republican man in New Mexico wanted to show how easy he thought it was to commit voter fraud. So the Albuquerque man did just that: committed voter registration fraud by registering his dog, Buddy, to vote.
Local news station KOB Eyewitness News 4 in New Mexico reported on the man’s stunt this week.
“They should verify. Somebody should have verified this information and somebody should have come out and took a look at exactly who it was,” the unidentified man told the news station. “But I made up a birth date, and I made up a social security number and I had a voter registration card in my hand for Buddy two weeks later.”
The news station interviewed the man on camera but granted the dog owner anonymity, and faded out any personal information, though it’s wasn’t clear why. Read more here...
To balance this story out, here is a video of what a Republican dog might look like.
You can't open a checking account or buy cigarettes, liquor and cold medicine without showing a photo ID. However, you can vote in some states without proof of who you are. I find this shocking, but Democrats don't want to change this. Their motives are highly suspicious. Wisconsin Governor Walker has put an end to this travesty in Wisconsin.
After an eight-year quest by GOP officials, Gov. Scott Walker will sign a bill Wednesday requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls.
But the measure costing more than $7 million in new spending and lost revenue could still face a legal challenge as opponents mulled over the possibility of suing to block it from taking effect.
The legislation will require poll workers to start asking voters for photo IDs for the July 12 state Senate recalls elections, but the voters will not be required to present them until next year's presidential primary.
"Requiring photo identification to vote will go a long way to eliminate the threat of voter fraud," Walker said last week. "If you need an ID to buy cold medicine, it's reasonable to require it to vote."
Harry Reid has refused to allow a vote on the repeal of Obamacare. As part of the budget deal, Republicans will get that vote. This was a masterful move by House Speaker John Boehner. Even is the measure fails, Senate Democrats will be put on record as ignoring the wishes of the majority of voters. Democrats have a large number of seats to defend in 2012 and some are in moderate to conservative states. Democrats are at serious risk of losing control of the Senate in 2012. This vote may well be the nail in their coffin.
(FOX News) — When the GOP-led House voted in January to repeal President Obama’s health care law, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he wouldn’t even take up the measure in his chamber and he scorned Republicans for wasting time on “symbolic votes.”
But after Congress struck a last-minute budget deal Friday night to avert a government shutdown, Reid will have to eat his words.
The deal that funds the government through the end of September and cuts $38.5 billion from current spending levels also guarantees a debate and vote in the Senate on legislation that would repeal the president’s signature on the domestic initiative that Republicans derisively call “Obamacare.”
The deal also requires several studies that will force the Obama administration to disclose the full impact of the law’s mandates, including a study on the cost of premiums; an audit of all the waivers given to businesses and unions that can’t meet the new annual coverage limits; and a report on all of the contractors who have been hired to implement the law and the cost of those contracts to taxpayers.
Democrats have a long way to go with voters. Republicans are trusted more on 9 of the 10 most important issues.
(Rasmussen)- It’s been two months since Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives and they are now trusted more than Democrats on nine out of ten important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports.
For the first time ever, Rasmussen has found most voters think Preisdent Obama's health care law will be repealed. 52% of voters think there is a reasonable chance the law can be overturned.
For the first time since Democrats in Congress passed the health care bill in March, a majority of U.S. voters believe the measure is likely to be repealed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is at least somewhat likely that the health care plan will be repealed. Thirty-three percent (33%) view repeal as unlikely. Those figures include 16% who believe repeal is Very Likely and 5% who believe it is Not at All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
In a noon email alert to supporters, Coons campaign manager Christy Gleason said close monitoring of voter turnout in the state’s 41 representative districts showed “lower turnout in New Castle and Kent counties than we’re comfortable with.”
To win, Mr. Coons will have to get heavy support from Democrats and independents in New Castle, the state’s most populous county. In the primary, Ms. O’Donnell drew heavy support from the state’s other two counties, Kent and Sussex, which skew more to the right.
The Obama administration failed to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation. A whistle-blower has also claimed they have a policy of refusing to prosecute any minority for voter rights abuse.
Just obtained this letter from Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine to members of Congress informing them that he will open up a review of the Obama administration’s selective enforcement of civil rights laws by the Voting Section office of DOJ.
You can't buy a pack of cigarettes or get on a plane without a photo ID. It seems obvious voters should not be able to help select the President, Congress or local officials without proof of their eligibility. While this is obvious to 82% of voters, Democrats are opposed to this common sense measure. The likely reason for this opposition is Democrats support voter fraud.
An overwhelming majority of Likely Voters in the United States think all voters in the country should be required to present photo identification in order to vote in U.S. elections.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters finds that just 14% disagree... Read more here.
Texans Together appears to be a bunch of community organizers that would make Barack Obama proud. They have put out this Houston Votes ad. The ad clearly is playing on Hispanics fear of the Arizona immigration enforcement law. Taken at face value, the ad could be seen as encouraging non-citizens to register and vote. In the ad, a policeman stops a Hispanic looking man and asks him if he is from around here. The man replies no. Upon further questioning, it is revealed the man is from Mexico, but here legally. The policeman then asks to see the man's documents. The announcer then asks us, "Don't want this to happen?" Then he tells us to vote. The ad shows a voter registration form and the announcer says, "Fill out this one or fill out theirs." If the man stopped had been a U.S. citizen, the ad would have made sense, but the Hispanic man in the ad admits he is here legally from Mexico. This would make him a non-citizen and ineligible to vote. Watch the video and form your own opinion.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that Democrats switching to the Republican party outnumbered Republicans switching to the Democratic party by about 7-to-1 as of Tuesday in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland. In 2008, the figures favored Democrats 5-to-1.
In Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, about 9 times as many Democrats have switched parties. In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, about six times as may Democrats have switched.
will be repealed. 52% of voters think there is a reasonable chance the law can be overturned. 
