USA Africa Dialogue Series - RE - Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds, mirrors nationwide trend

Real clear :http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

From over here in Stockholm: A high voter turnout would be good for
Brother Obama.

True to their tradition, the ultra-fundamentalist Christian
Conservative right-wing of the Bible Belt (90% of the Christian Right-
wing) have already decided and are preparing to cast their ballot for
the Republican Party, whether neo or not so neo-con. Some of them have
a dream in which the final battle of Armageddon takes place without
further delay (as soon as possible) so that they can begin to rebuild
the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. The dream continues: it is only after
the building of the 3rd Temple that Jesus will return and in this his
second coming, better luck next time, this time round they believe
that Jesus of Nazareth will convert all Jews to the new religion.

The richer ones among the ultra-fundamentalist Christian right-wing,
hard-liners are prepared , and will vote with or without a clear
conscience. In the South, the poorer ones among them have their
suspicions and doubts about Romney's wealth and can see clearly that
Brother Obama is much more more like Jesus of the social gospel,
whilst Governor Romney is more like the rich man in the Gospel of
St. Matthew, the one who would not choose perfection by following
Jesus, who could not give a way all his wealth and pick up the cross
and follow Jesus, not Lazarus or the tax collector....

Registration impossible....

The possibility of people like the materially " blessed are the
poor" ( from the Sermon on the Mount) these the economically weaker
citizens of the United States and their possibility of turning out in
record numbers, is zero. For many ( 100.000s) the first stage of
successfully registering themselves in order to be able to vote is now
an impossibility due to the draconian strictures designed to keep
their votes out.

Southern whites troubled by Romney's wealth, religion

https://www.google.se/search?q=Poor+Religious+conservatives+question+Romney%27s+wealth&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds,
mirrors nationwide trend

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/49574

September 29, 2012

Drop in Ohio voter registration, especially in Dem strongholds,
mirrors nationwide trend

By Doug McKelway, FoxNews.com

"Don't boo, vote," President Obama often says in his stump speech
whenever crowds boo a Romney plan.

The off-hand call to vote may be by design. It comes amid a
precipitous decline in Democratic voter registration in key swing
states — nowhere more apparent than in Ohio.
Voter registration in the Buckeye State is down by 490,000 people from
four years ago. Of that reduction, 44 percent is in Cleveland and
surrounding Cuyahoga County, where Democrats outnumber Republicans
more than two to one.

"I think what we're seeing is a lot of spin and hype on the part of
the Obama campaign to try to make it appear that they're going to
cruise to victory in Ohio," Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Rob
Frost said. "It's not just Cuyahoga County. Nearly 350,000 of those
voters are the decrease in the rolls in the three largest counties,
Cuyahoga, Hamilton and Franklin."Frost points out that those three
counties all contain urban centers, where the largest Democrat vote
traditionally has been.

Ohio is not alone. An August study by the left-leaning think tank
Third Way showed that the Democratic voter registration decline in
eight key swing states outnumbered the Republican decline by a 10-to-
one ratio. In Florida, Democratic registration is down 4.9 percent, in
Iowa down 9.5 percent. And in New Hampshire, it's down down 19.7
percent.
"It's understandable that enthusiasm is going to wane a little bit
from that historic moment (in 2008)," says Michelle Diggles, the study
co-author and senior policy adviser for Third Way. "You can only elect
the first African-American president of this country once."
The dip in registration has been framed by some as the result of
Republican efforts to suppress the vote – an accusation that Ohio
Secretary of State John Husted, a Republican, categorically rejects.

"That's kind of a silly notion that removing deceased people and
duplicate records from the roll has anything to do with voter
suppression," he said. "It actually has to do with voter integrity.
They can't point to one legally registered voter that's actually been
removed from the rolls."

The Third Way study, which was conducted in August, indicates the
Democrats' drop in registered voters coincides with a gain in
independent voters.
"There are about half a million more independents now than there were
just for years ago," Diggles said.

One Democratic Party consultant told Fox News that independents in
Ohio may be leaning Democratic – an effect that may be tied to the
bailout of Chrysler and GM. One of eight people in Ohio work in
businesses directly tied to the auto industry. The state has been
carpeted with Obama ads that point to his bailout of the industry and
it's managed bankruptcy.

Mitt Romney also favored a managed bankruptcy of the auto industry.
But he criticized the expenditure of taxpayer money and the
preferential treatment given to union-linked creditors over the
industry's secured creditors.

Others question the bailout's effect on swaying the minds of
independent voters. In the words of Diggles, independents are "not a
stable voting block at all."
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Have you heard about Tintin's trials and tribulations his temporary
banishment from the House of Cultures public library - for negative
racial stereotyping - and then a total reversal of Tintin's
banishment and his his restoration to the House of Culture, not long
thereafter....

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/

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