Voting restrictions echo Jim Crow laws, Hillary Clinton say
Source: LA Times
Hillary Clinton told an audience of black parishioners on Thursday that she would fight voting restrictions that make it harder for minorities to cast ballots.
“It is a blast from the Jim Crow past," she said at the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
Democrats have been fighting Republican-created laws in some states that restrict early voting or require government identification, winning a recent battle in North Carolina.
The reference to voting rights was one of several appeals Clinton made to black voters, who polls show overwhelmingly support her over Republican candidate Donald Trump.
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First, the television news media will mostly ignore this and focus on Trump's latest flip flop or re-hashing the e-mail story. Second, the MSM will celebrate Trump's non-existent outreach to minority communities and give Republicans a free pass on their efforts to suppress the vote in minority communities.
