Zack Roth on President Obama’s Statement on the Extent of the Voting Wars

Zack writes here.  Most interesting is the President’s comment suggesting the Democrats’ claims of voter suppression are overblown:

The one point I want to make though is that even with all the efforts that were made, let’s say in the last election, folks still voted, and if people feel engaged enough and have a sense of a stake in our democracy, you know, you’ll be able to vote. And our biggest problem right now is not the misguided efforts of some of these state legislatures. Our biggest problem is the one that you alluded to earlier which is people’s skepticism that government can make a difference. And even in the best of years these days, we still have about 40% of the population that’s eligible to vote that chooses to opt out. And they’re not being turned away at the polls, they’re turning themselves away, and that’s something that we’ve got to get at.

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