Clinton Campaign Disenfranchising Black Voters?
The first time I heard about "Women's Voices, Women's Vote" (WVWV) I really didn't think much of it. Recently it came to the attention of several news agencies that this seemingly independent group was placing robocalls to voters after the primary registration deadline explaining what they need to do in order to register to vote.
WVWV claimed that these calls were in order to encourage people to vote in the general election and apologized for any confusion. Fair enough, right? Except apparently these calls occurred in multiple states, and not only did they always occur after the deadline to register for the Democratic primary, but always just before the primary itself. Well that does seem a little bit of a coincidence.
But if these calls are deliberately placed after the primary registration deadline but just before the primary itself then what might the motive be? The Economist has enough facts to make a fairly strong case that the motive is to convince enough of Barack Obama's supporters that they aren't registered to vote in the primary that Hillary can win, or come closer than expected.
Sounds paranoid, right? The thing is, the board of WVWV is packed with people who have worked for and with both Clinton campaigns and the President of the organization personally donated thousands of dollars to Hillary's campaign, but for some reason they aren't making these phone calls to Hillary's "base". In fact, they seem to be making them primarily to black voters and other groups who polling shows are the least likely to vote for Hillary.
All things being equal, when a bunch of Hillary supporters are phoning up a bunch of Obama supporters (who are already registered) telling them they need to register to vote, and these phone calls consistently occur after the registration deadline but before the primary in state-after-state, I'm going to suspect the Clinton campaign of utilizing sleazy, disgusting tactics in their campaign for the Presidency. I understand "wanting it" and being "a fighter" but tactics like this are inexcusable. This is a democracy, if you can't convince people to vote for you then you aren't supposed to win, period.
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