{"id":8755,"date":"2013-05-26T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/26\/the-real-voter-suppression-of-2012\/"},"modified":"2013-05-26T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T05:12:05","slug":"the-real-voter-suppression-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/26\/the-real-voter-suppression-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Voter Suppression of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excellent article<\/a> by John Fund that begins thusly:<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2012 election season was filled with angry cries of \u201cvoter suppression,\u201d almost all of them regarding attempts by states to require voter ID and otherwise improve ballot integrity. Bill Clinton warned that \u201cthere has never been \u2014 in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the other Jim Crow burdens on voting \u2014 the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today.\u201d Democratic-party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said \u201cphoto-ID laws, we think, are very similar to a poll tax.\u201d
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

All of this proved to be twaddle.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

'Twaddle' is far too polite a word for the absurd and willfully mendacious Clintonian hyperbole emitted regularly by leftists on this score.  See my articles below.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will quibble, however, in a manner most pedantic, with one of Fund's sentences: "Indeed, several conservative groups I talked with said they were directly impacted by having their non-profit status delayed by either IRS inaction or burdensome and intrusive questioning."<\/span><\/p>\n

Are we to understand that the members of these groups suffered constipation<\/em> as a result of the IRS shenanigans? Presumably not.   Why then write 'impacted' when the perfectly good word 'affected' is available?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRelated articles<\/span><\/legend>\n
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\"\"<\/a>To Call it an Exaggeration Would be an Understatement<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Photo ID: Eric Holder's Assault on Common Sense<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Voter Identification and Voter Suppression<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>The Delusional Left and 'Voter Suppression'<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Photo ID: Voter Suppression or Liberal Projection?<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excellent article by John Fund that begins thusly: The 2012 election season was filled with angry cries of \u201cvoter suppression,\u201d almost all of them regarding attempts by states to require voter ID and otherwise improve ballot integrity. Bill Clinton warned that \u201cthere has never been \u2014 in my lifetime, since we got rid of … Continue reading “The Real Voter Suppression of 2012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}