Clueless Clinton book adds voter ID laws to list of reasons why she lost

[Jack Fake]

Hillary Clinton's newly released campaign memoir adds voter ID
laws and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the list of
reasons why she lost the 2016 presidential election.

In “What Happened,” which was formally released on Tuesday,
Clinton tells the full, 469-page “story” of what she “saw, felt
and thought during two of the most intense years” she’s ever
experienced.

She kicked off the promotion Tuesday at Barnes & Noble in New
York City’s Union Square, arriving to the event an hour late
after some supporters waited overnight outside the store to see
her. She eventually started signing her book -- which claims to
“pull back the curtain” on a number of factors that contributed
to her loss.

While previously released passages faulted James Comey and even
primary rival Bernie Sanders, the end of the book turns focus to
allegedly discriminatory voter laws.

On page 418, Clinton begins a section titled “Voter
Suppression,” where she claims the Trump campaign “actively
tried to discourage people from voting at all,” and adds that
their play was “just the latest” in a “long-term” Republican
strategy to “discourage and disenfranchise” Democratic-leaning
voters.

“The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts opened the
floodgates by gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013. When I was
in the Senate, we voted to reauthorize the law 98 to 0 and
President George W. Bush signed it,” Clinton writes. “But
Justice Roberts essentially argued that racism was a thing of
the past, and therefore the country no longer needed key
protections of the Voting Rights Act.”

Clinton describes Roberts' decision as “one of the worst the
court has ever made,” and goes on to list “fourteen states” that
had new voter ID restrictions by the 2016 election that she
wrote were “aimed at weeding out students, poor people, the
elderly, and people of color.” She goes on to blame Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now-vice chairman of President
Trump’s voter fraud commission, for much of the “national
effort.”

As part of her case, Clinton cites a debunked study on Wisconsin.

“Since the election, studies have documented how big an impact
all this suppression had on the outcome. States with harsh new
voting laws, such as Wisconsin, saw turnout dip 1.7 points,
compared with a 1.3-point increase in states where the law
didn’t change,” Clinton writes.

“In Wisconsin, where I lost by just 22,748 votes, a study from
Priorities USA estimated that the new voter ID law helped reduce
turnout by 200,000 votes, primarily from low-income and minority
areas,” Clinton says. “... Before the election, one Republican
state representative in Wisconsin predicted the new law would
help Trump pull off an upset in the state. It turns out he was
right.”

But PolitiFact slammed that study as “Mostly False.”

“Priorities USA, a group that supports Democratic candidates,
had issued a report saying a decline in voter turnout between
the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections in Wisconsin was
entirely due to the state’s photo ID requirement,” PolitiFact
wrote Tuesday. “But experts told us that while photo ID
requirements may reduce turnout to some extent, they questioned
the methodology of the report.”

PolitiFact also wrote that experts said there was “no way” to
put a number on how many people did not vote in Wisconsin
because of the ID requirement.

Clinton also infamously did not visit Wisconsin after the
primaries.

But throughout “What Happened,” Clinton blames multiple factors
for her loss—like the attention on “Those Damn Emails,” the
“unprecedented intervention in our election” by former FBI
Director Comey, and the “audacious information warfare waged
from the Kremlin.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/12/clinton-book-adds-
voter-id-laws-to-list-reasons-why-lost.html

Stupid bitch.
 

[trotsky]

Post by Jack Fake
Hillary Clinton's newly released campaign memoir adds voter ID
laws and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the list of
reasons why she lost the 2016 presidential election.
In “What Happened,” which was formally released on Tuesday,
Clinton tells the full, 469-page “story” of what she “saw, felt
and thought during two of the most intense years” she’s ever
experienced.
She kicked off the promotion Tuesday at Barnes & Noble in New
York City’s Union Square, arriving to the event an hour late
after some supporters waited overnight outside the store to see
her. She eventually started signing her book -- which claims to
“pull back the curtain” on a number of factors that contributed
to her loss.
While previously released passages faulted James Comey and even
primary rival Bernie Sanders, the end of the book turns focus to
allegedly discriminatory voter laws.
On page 418, Clinton begins a section titled “Voter
Suppression,” where she claims the Trump campaign “actively
tried to discourage people from voting at all,” and adds that
their play was “just the latest” in a “long-term” Republican
strategy to “discourage and disenfranchise” Democratic-leaning
voters.
“The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts opened the
floodgates by gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013. When I was
in the Senate, we voted to reauthorize the law 98 to 0 and
President George W. Bush signed it,” Clinton writes. “But
Justice Roberts essentially argued that racism was a thing of
the past, and therefore the country no longer needed key
protections of the Voting Rights Act.”
Clinton describes Roberts' decision as “one of the worst the
court has ever made,” and goes on to list “fourteen states” that
had new voter ID restrictions by the 2016 election that she
wrote were “aimed at weeding out students, poor people, the
elderly, and people of color.” She goes on to blame Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, now-vice chairman of President
Trump’s voter fraud commission, for much of the “national
effort.”
As part of her case, Clinton cites a debunked study on Wisconsin.
“Since the election, studies have documented how big an impact
all this suppression had on the outcome. States with harsh new
voting laws, such as Wisconsin, saw turnout dip 1.7 points,
compared with a 1.3-point increase in states where the law
didn’t change,” Clinton writes.
“In Wisconsin, where I lost by just 22,748 votes, a study from
Priorities USA estimated that the new voter ID law helped reduce
turnout by 200,000 votes, primarily from low-income and minority
areas,” Clinton says. “... Before the election, one Republican
state representative in Wisconsin predicted the new law would
help Trump pull off an upset in the state. It turns out he was
right.”
But PolitiFact slammed that study as “Mostly False.”

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2017/sep/12/hillary-clintons-claim-her-new-book-about-voter-su/


I count 8 trues and 1 false. You can fuck off now.