Democrats must own their values, Tea Party-style, not shift even more toward the mushy middle

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33. It's not fair to compare her to Obama because the courts

dismantled the voting rights act in 2013 -- a year after Obama's second run.

In the meantime, millions of votes were lost to vote purging, new forms of voter ID, closing of polling stations, and cutbacks in voting hours.

Despite voter suppression at unprecedented levels, she has received more votes than Obama, according to the Cook Political Report and the National Archives.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/the-real-voting-scandal-of-2016

It’s difficult to count uncast votes, but there were clearly thousands of them as a result of the voter-suppression measures. In 2014, according to a Wisconsin federal court, three hundred thousand registered voters in that state lacked the forms of identification that Republican legislators deemed necessary to cast their ballots. (The G.O.P. likes some forms of I.D. better than others. In Texas, a gun permit works; student identification does not.) In Milwaukee County, which has a large African-American population, sixty thousand fewer votes were cast in 2016 than in 2012. To put it another way, Clinton received forty-three thousand fewer votes in that county than Barack Obama did—a number that is nearly double Trump’s margin of victory in all of Wisconsin. The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election.

Current vote totals (and still counting)

Hillary 65,519,461

DT 62,846,550

http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174

2012 Vote totals

Obama 65,446,032

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2012/popular-vote.html