{"id":22798,"date":"2014-05-17T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T02:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22798"},"modified":"2014-05-17T22:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T02:36:21","slug":"american-voters-have-more-common-sense-than-some-of-their-elected-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22798","title":{"rendered":"American Voters Have More Common Sense Than Some Of Their Elected Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2014\/05\/17\/shocker-seven-in-ten-favor-voter-id-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a> posted a story today about voter identification laws in America. A <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fox News Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Fox News<\/a> poll released this week stated that 70 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Percentage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percentage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">percent<\/a> of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">American<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voters<\/a> favor voter identification.<\/p>\n<p>The article cites some results of the poll:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Seven in 10 registered voters are in favor of identification laws in order to root out fraud at the ballot box, according to a Fox News poll released this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The survey found majority support in every major demographic, including black voters and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrats<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The 70 percent who support <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter ID laws\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_ID_laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter ID laws<\/a> remains largely unchanged in the past few years. Another 27 percent believe the laws are unnecessary\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The survey found majorities of every demographic support the law. Ninety-one percent of Republicans offer support, and 66 percent of independents feel the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fifty-five percent of Democrats support the laws, while 43 percent oppose them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Opposition to the laws is highest among black respondents, but even there a bare majority, 51 percent, support them. Forty-six percent of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"African American\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">African Americans<\/a> oppose the laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voter fraud impacts every voter. If you are an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Citizenship in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizenship_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">American citizen<\/a> registered to vote, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fraudulent<\/a> vote can easily cancel out your vote and rob you of the privilege of voting. Voter fraud benefits no one. Voter identification laws are one weapon against voter fraud. Rather than &#8216;infringing on your right to vote&#8217; as many left-leaning politicians claim, voter identification laws protect your vote if you are voting legally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=58122721-4360-42ab-8029-da494d6e21ef\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Air posted a story today about voter identification laws in America. A Fox News poll released this week stated that 70 percent of American voters favor voter identification. The article cites some results of the poll: Seven in 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1051,712,853,554,4024,285,969,368],"class_list":["post-22798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-african-american","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-democrats","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-percentage","tag-united-states","tag-voter-id-laws","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22800,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22798\/revisions\/22800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}