Yellow Dog

Stories of Republican efforts to suppress votes are rampant. From their hiring of thousands of "poll monitors" to badger voters in Ohio to the mystery of the 58,000 missing absentee ballots in Florida, it's clear that Republicans plan to fight dirty. Why not? It worked in 2000.

From the Washington Post:

"Today's Republicans have elevated vote suppression from a dirty secret to a public norm.... By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own.

After four years in the White House, George W. Bush's most significant contribution to American life is this pervasive bitterness, this division of the house into raging, feuding halves. We are two nations now, each with a culture that attacks the other. And politics, as the Republicans are openly playing it, need no longer concern itself with the most fundamental democratic norm: the universal right to vote."

The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy (washingtonpost.com)