One thing that is interesting: since Trump has taken over, there have been few to no police/black interactions that have lead to police having to kill? Have blacks stopped resisting arrest? Who knows. What happened to the black microaggression movement on various campuses? Where has the Black Lives Matter organization been? Remember the black actor/actress boycott of the Academy Awards? I know the season is over, but has anyone heard what Kaepernick is doing to enable his anthem protest movement? Seems like all these things/movements took place while Obama was President;in other words, itās like the folks involved in these movements/situations took advantage of Obama. Perhaps they felt empowered by him, but they obviously went too far for a lot of white voters throughout America were sick and tired of these movements and they switched parties and voted Republican. And then election day came, and many of the blacks in the swing states did not come out in the 2008 and 2012 numbers for Clinton (i.e., but that they did for Obama). And, here we are. We need to get away from identity politics. We need to emphasize jobs. We need a 50 state solution. We need to not forget those blue states, pay more attention in the swing states, but not forget all those reds ones, either. And, we win next time.
I donāt want to be fairā¦but OK.
My Iowan born husband is gnashing his teeth. Been gnashing them since the election. Keeps mumbling about how Iowans, though conservative leaning, used to be rational, informed voters. No more.
I may be old and wrinkly but I am NOT smelly!
I may not agree with everything you say, but since you bought your prime membership, I will defend your right to say it. And you did make me laugh.
I think Iowa is screwed by Trump, no matter what. It will be a painful reckoning.
Yearning for the days of Mike Mauro as Secretary of State, back when Iowa had an electorate instead of lemmings. He worked HARD to open the voting booth to every eligible Iowan.
iād wager that million Iāve never had that Kobachās been coachinā these creeps.
Thereās a strange Kansas connection to all of this that now seems secured permanently.
Brownback really WAS the protoTrump.
Watch now as Trump tries desperately to deny Iowa her āIst caucusā status somehow, he lost to Cruz in Iowa and there will be hell to pay for it.
Trump always punishes his enemies regardless of what it might do to his adversaries.
Heās fleshed-out the Republican demon quite comfortably, and every day we grow less surprised that this profane person might represent such an evil entity all by his lonesome.
He certainly handles it well.
One sure thingā¦ the White House mirrors are getting a workout these days.
Iowans are notably well-educated and reliably literate, but Literacy doesnāt do much good when all they read and hear and see is FOX.
Brainpower works best when attached to reality, but impose perpetual neocon falsehoods in an endless loop that taps amygdala defenses, and voilaā, you got Iowa Politics in the 21st Century.
Articulate idiots quoting Bannon. I blame FOX and Rush, eta ala
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I canāt disagree with any of your thoughtfully noted points.
The people of IA have 2 years to comply. You would think that in that amount of time, sensible persons who want to vote could comply with the modest requirements of this law.
You are forgetting those who will move into IA in those 24 months, those students who will start college in 24 months, and with no to little education outreach there will be eligible people denied their franchise. Those were the people who got SoS Kobach with law suits.
Oh and once again if you donāt have poll books at polling stations and are relying solely on electric equipment what happens if there is a storm and the power goes out? Really has anyone worked a polling place and faced storms, power outages, or other acts of nature that interfered with voting?
This is ridiculous, honestly. I have lived in 5 states since the age of 18. Each had different rules for voting. In the flyover state that I live in now, there is a picture ID voting requirement. As soon as I got my driverās license, I satisfied that requirement. It took 45 minutes.
If the people who spent the hundreds, thousands of hours posting pathetic whining blather on internet fora went out and helped those who had no IDs get IDs, we would have no problem. This is the stupidest issue for Dems to pick up on. Because Republicans and normal sensible people are contemptuous of the ridiculous objections that are thrown up.
I myself hope that EVERY state institutes a picture ID requirement. In the next 3 years, the SCOTUS will be less sympathetic. The rules are going to get passed, and they will be considered constitutional. Rather than whining, Dems should simply comply.
Note that Kobach is SoS of the State of Kansas, not Iowa.
Thatās a reasonable point. I would hope that there would be a backup approach. The likelihood of your event is low. It is non-zero, so the SoS should consider the issue. If I were SoS, I would go to a system of provisional ballots which could be verified after the power was restored. The voter would fill out the ballot and place it in an envelope which is signed.
And all you have are personal attacks when you get called on your bullshit. What you wrote was both stupid and false, which is why youāre resorting to such attacks rather than (vainly) trying to defend what you wrote. Such tactics are transparent and pathetic.
Reading this comment stream, itās not that the alt-lefties here think rural folks are racists. They also think that they are old and smelly. Hating and despising old people for being old is one of the funniest stereotypes there is.
And more making up shit rather than dealing with reality, since a careful reading of this comment stream shows no such thing. Is reading comprehension always this much trouble for you? Do we need to use smaller words?
Voter ID - coming to a bunch of whining alt-lefties near you, in every damn state that there is, by 2018.
Perhaps but it will be an action that is designed not to solve any specific problem but rather to bar people from voting. We have ample proof of that over the years that this has been under discussion, in state after state, in court case after court case. The facts are on our side, not yours, which is why youāre so desperately trying to evade.
IOWA Needs Becky DeVos to keep their kids stupid !
Make sure your Emergency Rooms and your World
Class Hospitals and University keeps them Mussies
out !
Welcome to Iowa : āMuslims need not applyā
This is a loser issue. The Dem party has been picking loser issues for the last 20 years, and this is why they are down to controlling 5 states. You and the other alt-lefties are all sitting around saying how correct your pathetic ideas are, while the American people vote over and over and over and over and over again to dump Dems. The Dem party now SYMBOLIZES and IS PERCEIVED AS the party of lesbians, trannies, illegals, losers, and whiners. It is the party of the rioters in Berkeley, and the murdering thugs of the BLM. As such, it will not win until this pernicious nonsense of the alt-left is removed. Good luck with that, since losers like you and Ellison and Warren are running things. Hispandering is NOT the way to win. Itās the way to lose.
Two words: Churches. Abortion I vaguely remember Elizabeth Drew writing a long, laudatory piece in, I think, the New Yorker, abut that rising liberal star from Iowa, Senator Dick Clark. A couple of years later, he was looking for a new job. He had been pro-choice.
I have to say this is dumb. There are more white people in Iowa and looks like they are republicans now. A lot of older white people will be effected by the vote ID law. If they wanted to make Iowa blue again, way to screw over your voters. LOL.
ā¦future demographics suck for Republicans, that is for sureā¦ was that your point?
and can we call āwhinerā your projection of choice?
Think fast, you certainly wouldnāt want it to be any of the othersā¦
thereās the biggest pile of total bullshit Iāve read around here in a long, long time. Quite the contrary, sensible people are appalled at the obstacles they put in front of voters, while weaselly little enablers pretend indignation at our disapproval.
While Iām NOW an advocate of doing the HARD WORK of getting them signed up, Iām a living testament to the new difficulties because Iāve been doing voter registration since the 60ās, I know from past experience that no one was ever signing up illegal voters in the first place all these years,
Making it harder for activist groups to accomplish that very important task is suppression, not protection, and couching it as anything else, especially some sort of common sense, is BULLSHIT of the lowest order.
Go sign some folks up instead of getting on here whining about our very valid complaints that it is too hard to vote for some very legitimate folks. DO WHAT YOU PREACH and tell us how it goes. Otherwise you sound like a troll with an agenda, not a patriot with a mission.
Yes I know that Kobach is SoS in KS, but he is/has advocated for citizenship proof before being allowed to vote. My problem with photo ID, which is not in play in IA is that it costs money: it cost money to get a replacement birth certificate, it costs money to get the supporting documentation to get a birth certificate, it cost the state money to make āfree photo IDs,ā and so why should we the voters be out money to exercise our right to vote.
Now for little MO history with tangents here.
Last election they finally passed a photo ID law. Great and good I have a DL and a passport, and most importantly I can put my hands on my birth certificate in 5 minutes. But what we donāt have is DLs that are REAL ID compliant, so next year I will have to carry my US passport to fly and this year I will have to carry my passport to attend a wedding on a Naval base. So instead of getting our DLs and non-DLs compliant the state will issue for free a photo ID, free does not mean theyāll pay for replacement birth certificates and they havenāt spelled out what documents outside a birth certificate theyāll accept. And you want to know the reasoning behind the foot dragging and stalling is that MO state legislators from the southwest corner of the state donāt want the government to track us by our IDs, but they themselves want that for voting.
Every year, I hear this nonsense. Every single year. And yet, every single year, there are more republican voters.
Besides making democrats lazy, this irrational belief hinges on several incorrect notions:
- Young liberals become old liberals - actually, young liberals become older liberals and many become old conservatives
- Illegals will vote Democratic when they get naturalized - well, that aināt happening anytime soon.
- Immigrants vote Democratic - wow, that is SOOOO wrong. Many vote republican, partly because they see that the Dems are the party of illegal pimps, and legal immigrants HATE illegals. Some of the strongest anti-illegal folks that are out there are legal immigrants.
- Voting patterns today are voting patterns in the future - again, this is SOOOO wrong. Every election, people rethink their attitudes to the parties. The great shift of the WWC since 1964 has had a big impact. The FDR coalition ended in about 1972. The Reagan coalition ended in about 1992. The Obama coalition didnāt last in 2016. So, assuming that the patterns of the past hold is just not very sensible.
Rather than waiting for pie in the sky by and by, you might want to ask yourself āWill Dems have more than 40 senators in 2018?ā Because there is a very real chance that the Rs might hit 60+, and THEN you will REALLY see some stuff you donāt like - end of Medicare, end of Medicaid, deep cuts in food stamps and other welfare programs for lazy people, and the end of SS. Rather than worry about voter ID, Iād be worried about that. My count, right now, is that there are 7 imperiled D senators. If the Rs run the table, and get even 1 more, that is going to be a very difficult time.