From: "David Corn and Kevin Drum at Mother Jones" <do_not_reply@motherjones.com>
Date: Jul 13, 2012 5:25 AM
Subject: Voter ID: The GOP's Last Gasp
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TOP STORY By Kevin Drum Earlier this week I wrote about the long-standing hope of Democrats that demographic changes are working in their favor and will soon create a durable national Dem majority. There are several moving parts to this theory, but the two big ones are (a) young people are trending Democratic, and (b) the Dem-leaning nonwhite population is getting bigger and bigger. As far as I know, Republicans don't really deny that these things are happening. After all, the trend in the youth vote jumps out in every poll, and the growing nonwhite share of the population is regularly front-page news. George Bush and Karl Rove, who desperately wanted to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2006 in order to stanch the flow of Hispanic votes into the Democratic column, knew perfectly well how important this was. So what's the Republican response to all this? They have two options: [READ MORE]
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THIS WEEK'S NEWS ROUNDUP They're Not Saying "Boo," They're...Never Mind, They're Booing After spending the weekend dodging the hoi polloi in the Hamptons, Mitt Romney was booed at the NAACP for attacking policies that matter to black voters, prompting Rush Limbaugh to utter the dumbest comment "since the time the 61-year old radio host revealed he didn't know how birth control works." The first rule of banning abortion clinics is that you shouldn't tell everyone you're trying to ban abortion clinics. Elsewhere: The GOP's health care plan is still terrible, Maryland's gay marriage fight is officially on, and an NYPD spokesman gets pwnd.
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