Obama: The 'Real Voter Fraud' Comes From 'People Who Try To Deny Our Rights'

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16. You're right. It's sounds great and bipartisan.

My concern, and the notion behind my comment, has to do with the sincerity of the R's. Essentially there's nothing in it for them. There are fewer and fewer people who benefit from their policies. Keeping the numbers down and buying legislatures works and not much else would, especially when it gets down to raw numbers of voters. They need voter suppression and agreeing in principle looks like window dressing to me and nothing more. We'll see how it turns out.

The other part is the timing though. I remember the suppression in Florida when Bush got "elected" in 2000. Cops on horses scaring the hell out of people in endless lines in Tallahassee. Phony challenges, faulty machines, scrubbing voter lists.
It's been the primary source of the R's keeping control of state, local and national offices since.
My problem is that the Democrats have been weak, slow and ineffective in what should have been the central issue of the last decade and a third.