Interesting how voter ID is being enacted everywhere and how those fast-tracking it always point out to it's popularity in the polls (and I thought conservatives didn't like fast-tracking legislation and hiding what they're doing?). The latest to use the popularity argument is NRO's Rich Lowry, who is accusing Hillary Clinton of the race card:
This is ludicrous. North Carolina is simply joining the American mainstream. It is one of at least 30 states to adopt a voter ID law. Such laws enjoy broad public support as a check against fraud and hardly shock the conscience in a country where you need to produce an ID to enter many office buildings and to buy Sudafed. A Washington Post poll last year showed 65 percent of blacks and 64 percent of Latinos supporting voter ID.
It is such a common-sense idea that such foreign redoubts of backwardness and racism as Switzerland, Sweden, and Canada require an ID to vote.
I see what he did there. You see, the issue isn't just and only Voter-ID is it? And yet everytime such legislation is enacted in a state that's the only debate. When you see a governor or state senator being interviewed, the journalist NEVER probes beyond the voter-id aspect. What about banning same-day registration? Complicated early voting periods? Restricted voting locations? etc. Why hasn't anyone asked McCroy about that? Journalists throw out a softball on the voter-id, and then their job is done.
Now what if say, healthcare was covered and talked about like that? With a 90% focus on the preexisting conditions or kids on their parent's healthcare until 26?
As a matter of fact notice how the public tends to talk about conservative causes? Gun-control is about "freedom". I wonder if instead of pushing gun-CONTROL, if it was thought of as gun-SAFETY whether we'd have more traction.
I don't like how in this country, conservatives have come to own 'freedom'. We should hit back with not only freedom but JUSTICE. We should be a just country, shouldn't we?