Tuesday, April 8, 2014

No, You Can't Vote: The GOP and Its "15 Percent Solution"

No, You Can't Vote: The GOP and Its "15 Percent Solution"

"Soon, however, the GOP wasn't satisfied with these tactics. They have now moved on to straight voter suppression, especially in the swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin where they can do this. The strategy, for which they give few excuses, is aimed at suppressing the vote in those population segments that are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican, like African-Americans, the poor, Latinos, the young, and so on and so forth. Well, you might ask, "is this a new idea?" Well, I would reply, "no it isn't. It goes back at least as far as an electoral strategy designed by a now-defunct organization called the "Christian Coalition," in the late 1980s. It was called "The 15% Solution"."