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Yeah I'm sure politicians aren't passing these laws because they're potentially politically advantageous but rather because they're concerned about democracy in our great nation.

Don't make me vomit.

Honestly, re-read your last sentence and tell me which scenario makes more sense in our modern political climate, what you claim is the reason for these laws or the reason I think these laws are being passed.

kunal is taking souls here.

This morning the people at the polls were supposed to ask for ID. It wasn't required, but it was sort of a dry run for November. The senile guy who was flabbergasted when I politely refused and then took a lifetime to find the "on" switch of my voting machine gave me very little confidence in how the operation was going to work when you have millions instead of thousands

Yes, because your argument isn't oozing self-righteousness.....

Have you ever been on the side of an argument that you didn't feel pompous about arguing for? Serious question Mr. Bear Patrol.

I only feel pompous about my side of the argument when I'm confronted by notably weak arguments in response, especially those made by people who are extremely stubborn and convinced of the brilliance of their arguments. Thankfully, for me, that happens a lot more on the internetz than it does when interacting with people in real life.

Obama was at UNC earlier today (Tuesday) first giving a speech about student loans (basic politicking, but rates are set to rise in July). But the actual cool thing was they taped Fallon's show on campus (airing now) with Obama, DMB, and The Roots. Don't really care what your politics are, that's a badass event to have on camps. They held it in a hall with only 1500 seats and made it an online registration deal where seniors got priority, so basically only seniors got to go. I graduated last year :dagger

sorry if this is politically incorrect...but...

are you retarded?

You know, when you're on the same side of an argument as SATerp and Mr. Moozlem, and you're asking if I'm retarded, well you might want to rethink your stance at that point.

Unless you're going to sit here and tell me politicians tend to not do things because they benefit themselves.

To be fair, all his arguments ooze self-righteousness, so maybe that's just his natural state.

No one's arguing that. But interesting you keep harping on that without even acknowledging the possibility that Democrats may oppose voter ID laws because that benefits them.

Rubio's speech is scheduled for noon. Human Events is going to post the text on their site any minute now.

Edit: Here's the speech

I'd say the latter. Christie did the same thing. I think it'd be less of a smart move if he were angling for VP, because a speech like that might conflict with some of Romney's views on foreign policy, so he'd have to answer for that almost immediately.

Agreed. That makes more sense at this point.