Slow, Sloppy and Brilliant

It’s not that I care so much that the Democrats win. But I really care that Americans are allowed to vote and have their votes counted and I expect that most people care about that too. In this regard there is a big difference between the two parties: the Republicans have organized around suppressing the vote while the Democrats have organized around expanding it. The problem, as usual, is that the Democrats haven’t been nearly as good at it. Republican state governments around the country have been working overtime to manipulate the electoral laws and shut down the Democrats’ organizing institutions, from ACORN to unions, and wealthy plutocrats have put huge money behind the effort. With the exception of Wisconsin, the Democrats have been behaving like potted plants in response. One would have thought the 2000 election would have been enough to energize them to protect the franchise, but it clearly wasn’t. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another stolen election to convince them.