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    Default Voter Turnout Is Surging -- And Mitch McConnell Is Terrified

    The Senate majority leader recoils at provisions that would facilitate voting—a position that puts him increasingly out of step with voters and with many state-level Republicans.

    Recent findings that voter turnout broke a century-old record last year and could cause another “100-year storm of voters” in 2020 must play on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s worst fears.

    Not only did the annual America Goes to the Polls report, put out by Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project, show historic jumps in Latino and youth voter turnout. The report also found that voter-friendly policies, such as same-day and automatic voter registration, are vastly boosting turnout. The top ten states with the highest turnout—averaging 61 percent—were also the ones that made it easiest for voters to cast ballots. By contrast, the ten lowest-ranking states had turnout averaging in the low forties.

    https://prospect.org/article/voter-t...nell-terrified


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    You would think that anyone who loves this country would want to encourage voters to turn out and exercise this right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    You would think that anyone who loves this country would want to encourage voters to turn out and exercise this right.
    But GOPpers don't love this country. They only love themselves.

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    but even the republicans kids are outing their parents for cheating on elections now


    it just keeps getting harder and harder for them to cheat and get away with it


    that is why they LOVE Putin so much and refuse to investigate what Russia did to us

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    that is why they LOVE Putin so much and refuse to investigate what Russia did to us
    This is a CURRENT EVENTS Forum. It's a new day. Your old Russian/Trump delusions are old school now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    But GOPpers don't love this country. They only love themselves.
    And power.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    This is a CURRENT EVENTS Forum. It's a new day. Your old Russian/Trump delusions are old school now.
    13 russians were indicted by Mueller for fucking our elections idiot

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    13 russians were indicted by Mueller for fucking our elections idiot
    And, he never went after them. Forget it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    You would think that anyone who loves this country would want to encourage voters to turn out and exercise this right.
    Well we all know,(except those that watch fake news) that some folks just shouldn't be voting, as they don't know what is in their best interest like bitch mcconnell & ppl like ryan, mccarthy nunass, & ivanka trumpf etc....

    No collusion, long live trumpf sent from gawd...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    Well we all know,(except those that watch fake news) that some folks just shouldn't be voting, as they don't know what is in their best interest like bitch mcconnell & ppl like ryan, mccarthy nunass, & ivanka trumpf etc....

    No collusion, long live trumpf sent from gawd...
    Well, both parties have a goodly share of low-info voters who do dumb shit like choose a single issue (guns cough cough abortion cough cough pollution cough cough), who don't otherwise pay attention to politics or current events, and/or who stupidly vote against their own best interests. Even so, fostering higher voter turnout should be applauded by all. It's a shameful travesty when we have ppl fighting and dying for our freedom, yet less than 40% of registered voters bother to show up at the polls. And this goes triple for local elections, when you are deciding important things like school funding, who sits on your city council and school board, funding your first responders, and so on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    And, he never went after them. Forget it.
    How, exactly, do you "go after" foreign nationals in an unfriendly country who were acting at the behest of their corrupt leader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    How, exactly, do you "go after" foreign nationals in an unfriendly country who were acting at the behest of their corrupt leader?
    I agree with YOU. That was a reply to evince based on "13 russians were indicted by Mueller" (as if we could have done something or gone after them). Of course he couldn't.....I was just yanking his chain for thinking this was something he COULD have gone after.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
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