The GOP's priority is to ensure continued power by reducing the turnout of demographic groups like students, blacks, Hispanics that traditionally vote Democrat.
A new report details how Minnesota's wealthiest are pooling funds to shape state-level politics where basic civil rights issues like the right to vote are at stake.
Despite what you might hear about Tea Party Populism, one thing is indisputable. The bigger your salary, the more likely you were to cast a ballot for the GOP.
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 2, 2010.
However breathlessly reported as a Republican triumph or Democratic save or Tea Party miracle (or anything else), the election will result in more political gridlock.
Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. February 23, 2010.
In a stunning misreading of causality, the opponents of legal immigration are calling on the GOP to oppose immigration reform because immigrants don’t vote Republican
There's a dangerous right-wing alignment in the making; race-baiters proposing 'civics literacy tests' and elite free market ideologues who see democracy as inefficient.
GOPer Tom Tancredo suggests "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
