Like a good little libtard, millsy swallows the talking points he is spoon-fed on "voter suppression".
When libtards lose elections, it's because those "racist" voter ID laws suppressed minority turnout.
But when minorities turn out in higher percentages than non-minorities, it doesn't prove the converse, i.e., that voters were NOT suppressed on the basis of race.
Libtard logic = heads I win, tails you still lose. That's the way they roll!
Time for Jason Riley to school millsy on the lessons to be drawn from the recent Alabama Senate race:
Alabama Disproves the Case Against Voter ID
Liberals were ready to blame Jones’s defeat on ‘suppression.’ Then black voters helped him win.
By Jason L. Riley
Dec. 19, 2017 7:03 p.m. ET
If Democrat Doug Jones had lost the Senate contest in Alabama last week to Republican Roy Moore, does anyone doubt that the state’s voter ID laws would have been blamed?
Actually, we don’t have to guess, because Election Day brought observations like this tweet from columnist Paul Krugman: “Totally unclear who will win AL. But it’s so close that if Moore does win, voter suppression will have made the difference.” The comment received more than 6,900 “likes.”
As it happens, Mr. Jones won the special election and did so with more than a little help from black voters. CNN exit polling showed that blacks were 29% of the electorate, and 96% of them went for Mr. Jones. That 29% matches Alabama’s black vote share when Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and is slightly higher than in 2012.
Ultimately, however, white Alabamians made the difference last week. Mr. Jones not only swept the black vote but vastly outperformed Mr. Obama among whites, which is why he became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years. Mr. Obama managed just 10% of the white vote in 2008 and 15% in 2012, and he lost the deep-red state handily both times. Mr. Jones won 30% of whites, which enabled him to pull off the upset.
That said, the turnout among blacks, given Mr. Obama’s absence from the ballot, was impressive, and it ought to inform the continuing debate about whether voter identification requirements are tantamount to “voter suppression.” Mr. Krugman might think so, but most black voters disagree with him - as do most whites, most conservatives and even most liberals.
A Gallup poll last year put support for voter ID laws at 80% among all groups, including 95% of Republicans, 83% of independents, 63% of Democrats, 81% of whites and 77% of nonwhites. In a 2012 survey published by the Washington Post, 78% of whites, 65% of blacks and 64% of Hispanics expressed support for voter ID laws.
Democratic Party officials and media elites insist that asking people to prove their identities before voting effectively disenfranchises minorities, but most Americans understand the importance of ballot integrity. And
if such laws make it too difficult for blacks to cast a ballot, what explains the Obamalike minority turnout for Mr. Jones, given that Alabama implemented one of the country’s toughest voter ID requirements in 2014?
Scaremongers liken voter ID laws to the literacy tests and violence used to intimidate black voters under Jim Crow. But what happened last week in Alabama is not uncommon. Strict voter ID laws were passed
in Georgia and Indiana more than a decade ago, and in 2008 the Supreme Court concluded that they are reasonable and constitutional. Subsequently,
minority turnout increased not only within both states but also compared with other states that lack voter ID laws. Similarly, black voter registration and turnout remained level in Texas and went up in North Carolina after those states implemented voter ID mandates.
In the 2012 presidential election, blacks voted at a higher rate than whites nationwide, even as more states were passing these supposedly racist laws. In 2016 the percentage of the black vote declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, but Hillary Clinton’s losses in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania had more to do with voter apathy than voter ID. After all, Mr. Obama won those states. Twice.
Voter ID laws don’t keep blacks from casting ballots any more than they keep blacks from cashing paychecks. The problem for Democrats isn’t with these identification requirements but with giving their black base a reason to come out and vote. It turns out that when blacks are sufficiently motivated, they have no problem making their voices heard at the ballot box, even in states with strict voter ID laws.
Nevertheless,
don’t expect Democratic leaders to stop peddling these voter ID myths. The issue gives them a way to smear Republicans as racist, and liberals have an abiding belief that racial polarization is good politics. Unfortunately, we now have a Republican counterpart in President Trump, who inherited a racially divided country from his predecessor and has only made matters worse by, among other things, embracing right-wing populists like Roy Moore.
Meantime, the black unemployment rate has fallen to 7.3% from 8% in the past year, and black labor-force participation has increased. Among Hispanics, the jobless rate has dropped by a full percentage point, to 4.7%, over the same period, while labor-force participation has held steady. This is
what the Trump economy is doing for minorities. If more people aren’t talking about it, perhaps the president’s preoccupation with identity politics is to blame.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/alabama...-id-1513728214
