If you’ve been following the news about GOP voter-denial drives, you know that new registration requirements just happen to exclude folks who tend to vote for Democrats. But we’ve never come across an example that puts the problem into focus.

Until now.

Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she’s been eligible to vote but hasn’t.

The retired domestic worker was born in a small North Georgia town before women had the right to vote. She began casting ballots in her 20s after moving to Chattanooga for work. She missed voting for John F. Kennedy in 1960 because a move to Nashville prevented her from registering in time.

Well, heck, we didn’t vote for JFK either. Of course, we were still shitting our diapers.

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“No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
— U.S. Constitution, Fifth Amendment

“The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force.”
— Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969)

[American Citizen and Al-Qaeda Supporter Killed by U.S. Drone Attack]

“With most of the 18.4-cent tax per gallon of gasoline set to expire Sept. 30, renewing the tax could be the next political controversy to spark a brawl in an ever more deeply divided Capitol Hill.” [Politico]

…might as well cat blog.  How about a palate cleanser of a Daily Kitteh to take our minds off of the mayhem just inflicted upon 98% of this country, thanks to spineless Dems and pathologically insane tea baggers?  Say hi to Pippa, gang!

Maybe some of the rest of you have already heard about this ad for the special Congressional election for California’s 36th district (or have the El Ay Stinquers seen it?) but when I saw this my mouth opened a few inches and a wheezing noise of shock came out. The ad, attacking Democratic candidate Janice Hahn, was created and aired by an independent expenditure group called “Turned Right USA” in support of GOP candidate Craig Huey.

If you can’t make it all the way through it, the ad features Ms. Hahn as a stripper performing for two black gangsters who are rapping repeatedly, “Give us your cash bitch,” because apparently Ms. Hahn had supported a gang intervention group working with youth in LA, and she had the audacity to call for two LAPD officers to be removed from their Watts beat after numerous complaints about them harassing people in the community.

Get ready for a lot more of this shit in 2012, kids, thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Let’s start today’s Poll Roundup (Note: Not a regular feature) with CNN:

Donald Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee for first place when Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new national poll.

Trump is not running, and Huckabee doesn’t seem to be. Next!

Public Policy Polling:

PPP’s newest national poll finds that after a little more than 3 months in charge House Republicans have fallen so far out of favor with the American public that it’s entirely possible Democrats could take control of the House back next year.

43% of voters think that House Republicans are doing a worse job now than the Democrats did, compared to only 36% who think the GOP has brought an improvement.

It’s quite an early call. Things change. For one thing, the economy had yet to go tits up in April 2007.

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FOX News reports:

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election: Computer Error Could Swing 7,000 votes to GOP candidate

How conveeeeeeenient.