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Trump advisor: We have three major voter-suppression operations under way, including one targeting African-American voters:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/791618023916535809
sarae
(3,284 posts)They also released a Hillary attack ad all in Spanish, in spanish-speaking areas. That's infuriating based on his Trump's past comments alone. I remember him criticizing Jeb Bush for saying a few words in Spanish, saying people should speak English if they're in the US. And then they do an ad criticizing Clinton all in Spanish.
bigtree
(85,920 posts)...has been a huge bust for Trump.
All of that cynicism about the American voters has alienated huge swaths of the electorate. Trump's campaign is a revealing look at republican politics without the Jeb Bush-like finish on it. Just straightforward conservative bigotry and ivory-tower corporatism, which is, essentially the entirety of the republican platform.
We're defeating the conservative republican agenda head on, with the kind of broad-based support most campaigns only dream of. That's the verdict on racist chicanery like this.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)That's not what the term "voter suppression" is generally understood to mean. In most instances, it's taken to mean trying to prevent people from voting or having their votes counted, not trying to convince people not to vote for your candidate's opponent. Quite a difference there, and both parties do the negative campaigning thing quite a lot.
FSogol
(45,363 posts)WillowTree
(5,325 posts)But it's a stone cold fact that both parties.......all parties.......engage in copious amounts of aggressive negative campaigning these days. The fact that you don't like that I pointed that out doesn't make it less true.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Because the GOP has been engaging in true voter suppression for years now, with voter ID, etc. Calling negative ads voter suppression minimizes the actual damage done by those things.
meow2u3
(24,746 posts)That right there is, or should be, enough to extend the consent decree for at least another 8 years, if not indefinitely.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)All I'm seeing is EMAILS.