Why should the Palmetto Bug State have so much influence
Why should the Palmetto Bug State have so much influence on Presidential Elections?
According to the LA Times, (at http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rick-perry-south-carolina-is-who-picks-presidents-20120111,0,5513644.story ), "Since 1980, every winner of the GOP primary in South Carolina has gone on to take the party's Presidential nomination."
But just last month, the Justice Department rejected a proposed South Carolina "Voter ID" law as in violation of the Voting Rights Act for its projected suppressive effect on minority votes.
Thus South Carolina has been adjudicated as one of the most racist states when it comes to fairness in access to the vote.
IN LIGHT OF ITS UNFAIR VOTING PRACTICES, WHY SHOULD SC RETAIN SUCH INFLUENCE ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS? WHAT CAN BE DONE TO REDUCE IT? WHAT"S YOUR OPINION?
IMO, even though very few Blacks vote in Republican primaries, SC's outsize influence helps ensure that any anti-racist Republican candidates get eliminated from the general election by racist white Republican voters.
IMO, Democrats and progressives should confront Republican officials over this, and ask them to sanction any primary states that violate the Voting Rights Act, just as they sanctioned Florida for pushing its way into early primaries.
Al Sharpton had a chance to do this tonight (one of his guests was the SC Republican Party Chairman), but he failed to do so.
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I've heard a lot of nicknames, but that's not one of them.
It's not a bad nickname. We have eleventy billion of them, and those MFs are HUGE! I'm not afraid of them, but they can sure startle the hell out of me.
When I see them scuttling around in dim light, if I didn't know better, I would swear they are rodents of some kind.
