The Democrat Party: Disenfranchising Student Voters Like the GOP Disenfranchises Minorities
Over the weekend, Biden and Richardson announced that they do not support the right of Iowa students from out of state to caucus. Dodd has had four different positions in the span of as many days. The Clinton campaign seemed to retract her earlier comments and then not so much.
What is so shocking is that so few in the Democratic Party establishment and no one else in the Democratic primary field has weighed in on behalf of the utterly unproblematic, long-held progressive position that students have every right, and should be strongly encouraged, to register to vote. How hard can this be?
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By this logic, I never should have voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And I never should have voted for Kennedy when he ran against Romney, nor in any other election when I was in college.
As Rock the Vote said:
“To tell students that they can only vote in the town that they came from, rather than in the town where they live, is a clear effort to disenfranchise student voters. Attempts on the part of campaigns to deter eligible voters from voting should be forcefully and immediately denounced.
What if they gave an election and nobody came? Maybe no one should vote this year: not the fundamentalists who’ve been betrayed by the GOP, not the Democratic base who’ve been betrayed by the Democrat Party. What if they spent all that moneyk, took out all those loans and no one, not one single person, showed up to vote.
There’s a reason “None of the Above” isn’t an option at the polls. “None of the Above” would win every time.
Shame on the Democrat Party. Shame on Joe Biden and Bill Richardson and Clinton, and yes even Chris Dodd, for daring to say something so un-American.
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