a.) this is a race-bated thread-right from the title to the premise on.
b.) the OP does exhibit conservative leanings on DY and by what post I've stumbled across outside DY [[like city-data.com)
c.) there have been many examples of conservatives blocking folks from certain areas from voting through means that go beyond the continuous specter of gerrymandering. This book https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened.../dp/1595580697highlights quite well every strange pain-staking detail that pertains to all the roadblocks [[geographical, social, civil, or otherwise-hey! if Chris Christie, the Trump supporting mayor who praised Obama during Hurricane Sandy and has since dissed him afterwards, can alter the commuting terrain for his ends, even be it for petty vengeance against an opponenthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_L...losure_scandal, then what would stop similar mindsets during an election?) that occurred in Ohio during the 2004 election [[this is not to elaborate on the Florida punch-card fiasco in 2000).
The "concerns" raised for a need for Voter ID cards to "prevent fraud" alone are exaggerated; yet, it seems Republicans were the biggest proponents for them. It just creates more unnecessary steps in allowing one to vote.
This is also happening in Virginia [[and far worse, elsewhere), where the theory is that if ex-felons [[a majority of them who are minorities) who did their time are allowed to have their voting right restored to them, they won't vote Republican.http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...ction-felonies To deny them any right in this matter is to limit voting. I brought this up in a thread that went ignored.http://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthr...ns-in-Virginia
d.)As a person who paid attention to nothing but public radio in the 90's-including NPR [[had friends working at WDET in the 90's)-I've sadly watched as it strayed from it's more level-headed rare liberal leaning to one that attempts to be more relativistic, thus giving more time to conservative points-of-view [[which are not rare, as they are already saturating every media out there from TV to internet to AM/PM pundit/talk radio) or just talking about generally unimportant self-indulgent issues altogether that pose no incisive or direct threat in "rocking political boats". In short, like many things since that last horrible decade took hold, it lost it's teeth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujfzq29YN0
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