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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The liberals did just that with McCain in 2000, its what Rush is using as a precedent.
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Actually, I think the precedent was the Republicans in the '80 Democratic primaries.....crossing over to vote for Carter over Ted Kennedy.
As much as they loved raising the`Chappaquiddick flag, they feared Kennedy as an opponent for Reagan far more than they feared the weak incumbent Carter.
But we cant blame Rush for that.
BTW, the 1980s was the same time the Republicans signed a consent decree to stop using voter caging to suppress minority voters (
if you dont know about voter caging, this video explains it):
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Minority-biased voter challenge laws originated shortly after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1869, which prohibited states from denying the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Voter caging, in particular, did not emerge on the election scene until 1958 when an initial voter caging operation was conducted in Arizona. Shortly thereafter, voter caging campaigns surfaced during the development of the Republican "Southern Strategy," in which the party attempted to garner the support of white voters through metaphoric appeals to "states rights." In 1964, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and state Republican parties conducted a nationwide voter caging campaign named "Operation Eagle Eye."
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed suit against the RNC in the New Jersey District Court accusing them of violating the constitutional right of African-American and Hispanic voters through their caging campaign in 1981. In a settlement, the RNC entered into a consent decree stating they would:
"Refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting; and the conduct of such activities disproportionately in or directed toward districts that have a substantial proportion of racial or ethnic populations shall be considered relevant evidence of the existence of such a factor and purpose." This consent decree was modified in 1986 after another attempted caging campaign in Louisiana. The modified decree required the RNC to obtain approval from the District Court before embarking on any "ballot security program" (the term the RNC used for their caging efforts), and required them to give the DNC 20 days notice before launching any future "ballot security program." Due to the lax enforcement of these decrees, and the fact that they were only applicable to the national Republican Party, voter caging continued into the early 1990s and re-emerged as a nationwide political strategy in 2004.
http://www.nationalcampaignforfairel.../voter_caging/
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Yet that hasnt stopped them from using this tactic in 2000 and 2004. Its not unreasonable to expect the Republicans to try it again in 2008. The national RNC just acts in the background to remove itself from direct accountability.