The pundits at mydd.com, one of the busiest pro-Kerry sites in the blogosphere, have been paying careful attention to events in Ohio - where a federal appeals court today ruled that thousands of Republicans could challenge the eligibility of voters at polling sites.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson compared the move to intimidation tactics that whites used to disenfranchise blacks in the South decades ago.
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"The whole idea of Republicans spending time trying to import challengers into the black community is Old South politics, a type of intimidation," he told the Associated Press.
Jene Galvin, in a post on Make Ohio Blue, agrees. "These challengers, who are mostly Caucasian, will stand in mostly African-American voting places causing many to call this a last-minute, racist ploy to dampen the black vote for John Kerry."
But Nashville's Bill Hobbs, writing on Hobbs Online, says simply: "Good. The Left will howl and toss around words like disenfranchisement, intimidation ..." And he is right.
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