Hold, hamper, hinder
The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
10/30/06
Polls show Democrats picking up between 20 and 30 House seats, enough to take control of the House. But brace yourself for a very long evening -- that could go on for days. The Republicans' superior ground operation -- they spend more on targeting voters and getting out the vote -- has received some attention in the press. But far more ominous is the organized effort to suppress voter turnout, directed entirely against groups likely to vote for Democrats. An exhaustive report, 'Voting in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004?' by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Century Foundation, and Common Cause, catalogs new, sickening assaults on our democracy...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12175
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Robert Kuttner
10/30/06
Polls show Democrats picking up between 20 and 30 House seats, enough to take control of the House. But brace yourself for a very long evening -- that could go on for days. The Republicans' superior ground operation -- they spend more on targeting voters and getting out the vote -- has received some attention in the press. But far more ominous is the organized effort to suppress voter turnout, directed entirely against groups likely to vote for Democrats. An exhaustive report, 'Voting in 2006: Have We Solved the Problems of 2004?' by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Century Foundation, and Common Cause, catalogs new, sickening assaults on our democracy...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12175
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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