Behold, This Election Day, the Gehenna of the Journamalist!
I cannot figure out whether they belong in the Bolgia of the Evil Counselors:
Or among those banner-chasers denied entrance to either heaven or hell for their refusal to take a stand:
Consider Albert Hunt...
"Speculation" that voter-suppression legislation could depress the turnout of "groups that are likely to be predominately in the Democratic camp"? The purpose of the voter-suppression legislation is to suppress voting for Democrats. There is not "speculation". There is no "could". There is only the question of how effective the voter-suppression measures will be, for they also serve as a challenge to the suppressed groups and an organizing tool.
If Albert Hunt--now 74--cannot call a spade a spade even now, and has not figured out what it is to be a trustworthy information intermediary, he should go. In the words of Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say; and let us have done":
Albert Hunt: North Carolina Is the Real Bellwether State: "The Republican legislature and an acquiescent governor passed restrictions on voting in 2013...
...Some of these were thrown out by courts but some remain, and there is speculation the limits could depress the turnout of black voters and the young, two groups that are likely to be predominantly in the Democratic camp...
