A get-out-the-vote ad by a Florida-based group called Dream Defenders is part of its new “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is rallying voters around police violence against black youth. Shot in black and white, the minute-and-a-half ad shows a young black mother in the kitchen distracting her son from a video game to ask him […]
The 2014 mid-term elections are around the corner and efforts are underway to encourage liberals and progressives to get out and vote, because as we all know: when liberals vote, liberals win. It’s as simple as that. However, voter turnout for mid-term elections is historically weak and with Obamacare, indeed the Obama presidency, at risk […]
Should voting be mandated? I posed this question on my Facebook page a while back and was surprised with the answers. Most people said “no” and asked how it would be enforced. The reasons for the “no” answers were: “It would be like a dictatorship,” and that “We have the right to free speech and […]
When Liberals Vote, Liberals Win. It really is that simple and that is why these 5 senators put the smackdown on Republican voter suppression efforts. Concerned about Republican led efforts to suppress the vote, U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) tasked the non-partisan […]
State laws that make voters show IDs at polling places have put a price on ballot access and eroded turnout – especially among African Americans, young people and recently-registered voters – a non-partisan congressional watchdog concluded. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office report also found scant evidence of voter fraud that the new […]