"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast"
-Oscar Wilde		 Brilliant at Breakfast title banner "The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself."
-- Proverbs 11:25
"...you have a choice: be a fighting liberal or sit quietly. I know what I am, what are you?" -- Steve Gilliard, 1964 - 2007

"For straight up monster-stomping goodness, nothing makes smoke shoot out my ears like Brilliant@Breakfast" -- Tata

"...the best bleacher bum since Pete Axthelm" -- Randy K.

"I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum." -- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (1954-2015), They Live
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Was the mortgage mess planned for the purpose of disenfranchisement?
Posted by Jill | 9:45 PM
When you look at the states with the highest foreclosure rates for the second quarter, they sure look like states John McCain needs badly if he wants to win in November:

1. Nevada, with 1 in 43 households in foreclosure
2. California, 1 in 65
3. Arizona, 1 in 70
4. Florida, 1 in 78
5. Colorado, 1 in 129
6. Ohio, 1 in 134
7. Michigan, 1 in 137

...and Georgia, Massachusetts and Illinois rounding up the top 10.

One side effect of all these foreclosures is going to be a large number of displaced voters -- voters whose registrations will be at their foreclosed address; voters with other things on their minds than changing their registrations. Either they won't show up, or their addresses won't match, or they won't know where to vote.

And all of this is happening as states are pushing through voter ID laws.

DDay calls it legal disenfranchisement. And it sure looks like it may very well be.

Labels:

2 comments
Bookmark and Share
2 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I doubt that Rove et al "planned" the mortgage meltdown -- at least they didn't plan it for 2008, 2009 maybe when the next President would get blamed, but their guys got greedy and it blew up too soon. [Just like the gas speculators!]
Just like they didn't plan for Katrina.

But once it happened, you can be sure they have every intention of taking advantage of the opportunity.

Can't blame them for inflexibility.
7/27/08, 7:25 AM  
Blogger Jennifer Briney said...
Put that together with all the illegal disenfranchisement going on and our guy has a very good chance of losing this year even with an overwhelming lead.
7/28/08, 3:30 AM  
Post a Comment
<< Home