The Post-Gazette reminds us that the Republicans' voter supression law in Pennsylvania isn't dead yet, and the ACLU is vowing to fight it all the way to get it ruled unconstitutional. In the article, we learn of Republicans complaining that there must be fraud, because some voting districts recorded no votes at all for Romney. Well, I wonder why that might be?
Turns out those districts (a total of 63, four in Pittsburgh and the rest in Philadelphia) are in area dominated by minority voters. How was Romney's pre-election polling with African-Americans? Well, at least one pre-election poll had Romney at ZERO percent African-American support. Daryl Metcalf, The Shame Of Butler County certainly didn't help matters with statements like this in regards to the legal findings in the case: "skewed in favor of the lazy who refuse to exercise the necessary work ethic to meet the commonsense requirements to obtain an acceptable photo ID." Yeah, we hear that dog whistle loud and clear Daryl. Meanwhile, the only cases of in person voter fraud this year, the only kind of fraud Voter ID laws might prevent, were committed by Republicans.
When you run a campaign aimed at trying to garner as much of the old, angry white guy vote, while at the same time insulting everyone who isn't an old, angry white guy and using racist dog whistles at every opportunity, such as the "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage" gaffe, then you really shouldn't be surprised when you garner zero support from the people you're attacking, just like the pre-election polling suggested.