New Orleans Both major candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, seem to have concluded that, “What the heck, the poor don’t really vote, and the poor will always be with us, so later for them.” Speeches about the economy are silent on the issue of the richness of America contrasted with our level of poverty …
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Revolution of the Low-Information Voter or What?
New Orleans The Presidential primaries are coming hot and heavy now that we’ve left the frozen tundra of Iowa and New Hampshire and politics are moving west and south. For all of the sound and fury about how neither state is representative of the rest of the country, this is the time when the pols …
Problems are Epidemic in the States Due to Voter Registration
New Orleans The headlines only tell part of the story when it comes to the emerging crisis in voter registration systems and the simple act of voting. I haven’t gone through the whole Pew Trust report on state problems according to their election performance index covering 2008 and 2010, but I’ve read enough to know …