Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.

www.gregpalast.com Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.

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"If the purges [of potential voters], challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast."

"[...] Democracy can win* despite the 2.3% suppression headwind.

And that’s our job as Americans: to end the purges, the vigilante challenges, the ballot rejections and the attitude that this is all somehow OK."

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girlthing @lemmy.blahaj.zone

1w ago

Stop blaming non-voters. Please.

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PutItOutWithYourBootsTed @piefed.social

3w ago

Would Trump have actually won without voter suppression?

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PutItOutWithYourBootsTed @piefed.social

3w ago

Would Trump have actually won without voter suppression?

www.gregpalast.com /trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

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Dem pols are always too afraid to exercise the power they have when they win. Always. When Biden won, DC and Puerto Rican statehood should have been the first things on the agenda.
The GOP is never afraid to exercise as much power as they can get away with.
- Biden never had enough control of the whole government to get those things done without Republican buy-in.
  A Republican controlled house won't send a bill like that to the Senate. A Republican controlled Senate won't send it to the President.
  You can be upset at Biden, but we've rarely ever given a Democratic president a Democratic Congress to help him get anything done.
  
  Uh, no. He had a Democratic congress the first half of his term. Part of why he lost them is Dems are so tepid with exercising the power the voters give them.
  Nothing the Dems do, or even try to do, gin the base up into excitement. The base never feels inspired that the Dems are striving for the goals they claim to represent and want.
  
  This, 100%.
  I remember when Democrats had a filibuster proof majority under Obama.
  And they still failed to pass single payer healthcare, because of former VP candidate Joe Lieberman. Like, talk about lack of party discipline.
  Republican politicians at least deliver what they say they will deliver.
  
  I wouldn't really say Republicans deliver what they say they'll deliver. A week before election Trump was saying he'd have grocery prices lower on day one, and then as soon as he was elected he suddenly became aware that was complicated and the wouldn't be anything he could do about it. Part of his campaign the first time around, too, was that he would provide a brilliant replacement for Obamacare, but after four years he'd done absolutely nothing on that front, and four years after that he still insisted he was going to do that, but admitted that he only had "concepts of a plan."
  They carry out a lot of the culture war aspects of their promises. And they carry out the promises they make to their billionaire megadonors. Everything else they hope gets forgotten about.
  
  They didn't actually have a filibuster proof majority for much of that time. Franken's win in Minnesota was contested, and he wasn't sworn in until 9 months after the election.

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