We’ve put out materials specifically aimed at individual voters so that they have the basic information that they need. Everything from one-page guides for [organizations] getting their members involved, or just urging their members to go [vote], so they know what the law is.Fair Elections Legal Network president and cofounder Robert Brandon • Discussing the work they put in to make sure your post counts. They’re not alone. A number of other organizations put in significant amounts of time to ensure that voters were informed and aware of their rights as they went to the polls. “If somebody’s going door to door, trying to convince people to go vote, they can hand them these palm cards and it’ll say, in the case of Pennsylvania, ‘You do not need a photo ID to vote in this election,’” Brandon emphasized.
When the fringe becomes the norm: The past couple years, the birther issue has been a touchy one in Republican politics; it’s a dangerous internal wedge issue for them. Say he was born in Kenya (or merely imply your doubts), and you look like a kook of the highest order. Say he was born in Hawaii, and you’ve alienated a non-negligible amount of your traditionally ravenous base. If the GOP Presidential field had managed to stay in the middling, “I take his word for it” zone, averting the problem — no Republican would have disdained their party’s strongest looking candidate because he didn’t think Obama was foreign. But with Donald Trump diving into the deep end of the birther pool, this constituency becomes volatile and impossible to predict. source
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