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Related: About this forum“They are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/us/politics/obama-campaign-confronts-voter-id-laws.html?_r=2&ref=politicsObama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Published: April 29, 2012
WASHINGTON Field workers for President Obamas campaign fanned out across the country over the weekend in an effort to confront a barrage of new voter identification laws that strategists say threaten the campaigns hopes for registering new voters ahead of the November election.
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Senior advisers to Mr. Obamas campaign say many of the new laws put a heavy burden on the registration process, making it more difficult to recruit first-time voters. Other laws shorten the early-voting period in states that had tried to expand the voting window.
They are clearly put forward for partisan political gains, Mr. Bird said. They are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.
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But the real impact of the new laws may not be the financial cost. Mr. Bird said the campaign had identified the number of voters it believes must turn out in each state for Mr. Obama to win in November.
If the new state laws prevent the campaign from reaching those goals, it could cost Mr. Obama a second term.
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“They are trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.” (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2012
OP
so where have these dim bulbs been for the past 3 years this has been going on? sheeesh! nt
msongs
Apr 2012
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I don't think it's just neocons; the whole party seems to be in support of this. If
babylonsister
Apr 2012
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msongs
(67,193 posts)1. so where have these dim bulbs been for the past 3 years this has been going on? sheeesh! nt
marlakay
(11,370 posts)4. I know we all knew this was happening
so what were they doing across america to stop it? not much I saw...
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)2. It is exactly what the right wing neocons planned.
I have said this before, I will say it again, the GOP knows if every eligible voter did vote they would never win an election.
babylonsister
(170,955 posts)3. I don't think it's just neocons; the whole party seems to be in support of this. If
they're not, why haven't we heard a peep? From anyone??
mac56
(17,561 posts)5. I have said the same. Republicans can't win a fair fight
and they know it.