Commentary
Yesterday, I touched briefly on the concern Democrat “mucky mucks” are having over the party’s voter registration effort initiated under President Biden’s executive order directing an all-of-government approach to register voters in 2024.
It seems as though they just got around to reading the order and began to worry that boosting non-partisan voter registration could help Donald Trump.
It was Aaron Strauss, an influential data scientist, that sparked disagreements among top level donors with his memo challenging traditional non-partisan registration, according to the Washington Post. Strauss helps direct progressive spending at the firm OpenLabs.
“For too long, many funders have relegated the work of mobilizing constituencies, especially voters of color and young people, to non-partisan programs,” wrote Strauss.
The concern arose with the “non-partisan” nature of the policy outlined in the White House bulletin issued on promoting voting access just weeks after Biden took office, which was later published for all to see as Executive Order14019 in the Federal Register.
Similarly, a progress report by Susan Rice, Domestic Policy Advisor, published on September 20, 2022, referred to the administration remaining committed to using every tool at its disposal to protect the sacred right to vote, citing subversion and suppression.
Surely, those concerned aren’t suggesting that those registering voters only seek out likely Democrat voters. Maybe they are.
During the 2012 campaign, President Obama had his registration canvassers wear Obam campaign apparel to attract potential supporters.
It must be noted that Biden’s all-in-government Promote Voting Access scheme isn’t the sole registration effort. It merely supplements voter registration plans of the Democrat Party and of the Biden campaign itself, that are targeted and designed to filter out Republicans.
It is believed that 80 percent of Americans are already registered to vote, and while the RNC is also seeking to increase registrations, its strategy is getting its people out to vote.
While drafting this blog, a piece by Salena Zito, an excellent grassroots reporter, “Democrats should be jittery about Pennsylvania voter registration trends,” appeared in the Washington Examiner.
“If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania,” she writes, “it still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized cherry-red billboard along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.”
Noting how they have shed Democrat policies of their upbringing; voter registration numbers show it.
“These voters have not changed personally, but their parties have done so. Democrats have abandoned their working-class voters for college-educated elites who rarely call the middle of somewhere home,” she writes.
Since 2020, when Biden won the state, the number of Democrat registrations has gone from a 600,000 voter registration advantage to 389,000, according to the newest numbers available in the Commonwealth’s Department of State.
A Pre-Election “Surprise?”
Reading “An October Disinformation Surprise Is Coming,” Holman W. Jenkins, Jr’s column in the Wall Street Journal, it was almost like reading my recap of surprises in my last blog.
It was gratifying to read his admonishment of the media that bought into the collusion hoax, the laptop censorship for not coming clean, but notes that Mr. Trump would benefit politically if the truth were acknowledged.
While calling out Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff, Jenkins said, “I’m not forgetting the complicity of the press, whose normal role is to take an interest in matters that are, you know, interesting.”
“If it’s true that cowards die a thousand deaths, our media will bankrupt the fisc with all the end-of-life care it’s going to consume.” – Jenkins
Jenkins writes that Trump turns out to be less of a danger to our institutions than they are to themselves and reminds readers of that while remembering that the collusion hoaxes were promoted by official U.S. agencies in the manner of Putin’s Russia.
Considering the likelihood that we will see lies fabricated by agents and veterans of the Deep State as in 2016 and 2020, Jenkins wonders if the media, if given a third opportunity to get it right, will be ready.
I don’t think so. Retrieving a March 7, 2024 column by Bill Goodykoontz of the left-leaning Arizona Republic from my stack of stuff, “Let’s give Trump his ‘free and fair press,’” he recalled how Trump’s relentless attacks have helped undermine media credibility among his supporters, and probably among his detractors.
He followed with, “But I say we give the guy what he wants. So now what?” Calling for critical but fair coverage, he asks, “Can the media rise to the occasion?”
Again, I say, I don’t think so. While saying the 2024 election will be the most important election of our lifetimes, he unfairly states “Trump and his cronies are positioning themselves as active threats to democracy. That’s not bias, that’s fact.” The facts were not included..
May God continue to bless the United States of America.
