The reason the @GOP wants to make it harder for people to vote is because the higher the turnout, generally, the more likely it is that a state goes blue.
Details:
Details:
https://twitter.com/TheValuesVoter/status/1375344550668075008
And the Republican Party seems to have given up on winning elections by attempting to appeal to the electorate at large. The party has won three out of the past eight Presidential elections. But two of those three came despite losing the popular vote.
That’s now their goal.
That’s now their goal.
They seem to think that their only path to victory is to win the electoral vote while losing the popular vote (and thus not even trying to appeal to the masses of voters). And to do that, to win these narrow electoral victories, they need to suppress turnout.
High turnout seems to be the GOP’s perceived natural enemy. Especially among black voters
Again, for all but one of the last six elections, 8 of the 10 states w/lowest turnouts went red. And in all but one of the last six, 7 of the 10 states w/highest turnouts went blue.
Again, for all but one of the last six elections, 8 of the 10 states w/lowest turnouts went red. And in all but one of the last six, 7 of the 10 states w/highest turnouts went blue.
If they can purge mom from the polls (well, at least MY mom ... maybe they like yours) and make it inconvenient for people who don’t have extreme flexibility in their schedule to vote, make it harder to register, everything they can think of, fewer people of my hue will bother.
And that’s the whole point. They think they don’t need to bother trying to compete in the marketplace of ideas in order to win the hearts, minds and votes of America as a whole.
Instead, they’ll just try to whittle away at the numerator. Get fewer of us to vote.
Instead, they’ll just try to whittle away at the numerator. Get fewer of us to vote.
In order to apply the thinnest possible vernier over what most people now realize is naked voter suppression, they speak of “election security.”
Although there is no actual evidence for any sort of widescale problem with the integrity of the vote.
Although there is no actual evidence for any sort of widescale problem with the integrity of the vote.
Ignore the masses, try to suppress voters who have the least flexibility and resources, try to win a few key states and hope the Electoral College will save them.
That’s their playbook.
That’s their playbook.
One more thing: there are very few states - even among blue states - in which the GOP outright loses with white voters.
Most states that go blue go blue because the GOP does so badly with nonwhite voters.
They know this.
Most states that go blue go blue because the GOP does so badly with nonwhite voters.
They know this.
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