The Voter ID laws: How this battle can turn around

The Democratic Party is doing a piss-poor job fighting this campaign for Voter ID laws across the country. I'm sure everyone active on DU knows what they're actually for - to add more bureaucratic steps to the process of voting with the goal that it will discourage or prevent certain left-leaning demographics from casting a vote.

The Right has framed this issue very successfully in the media and the minds of the public. They've convinced millions that this is necessary for the integrity of our elections, and the only reason Democrats oppose it is because they hope to benefit from the votes of lying illegal aliens, immoral liberals voting several times, and the Ghost of Acorn. It's a one-two punch - Republicans can disenfranchise voters and at the same time make Democrats look crooked for objecting. And all the while, the GOP Brass chuckles and winks at each other during the commercial breaks at Fox News.

The Democratic Party has the right position here, but not many people believe them about the resulting disenfranchisement. And if they don't take this seriously, it's going to handicap their candidates.

The Democratic Party needs to put faces on these people. Make them real. Find a young person who doesn't own a car and doesn't need a driver's license. Put them in an ad talking about why it's not fair to make them jump through hoops at the DMV in order to cast a vote. Find the elderly person. Find the poor person.

And are they even telling people what's going on? How many people might show up on election day this year not knowing that they lost their right to vote because they didn't happen to know that their state legislature passed a law requiring them to get more "papers" before being allowed to vote?