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Less than three months before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.

Party leaders and donors fear nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.

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"You don’t cure these people. You don’t cure a child molester. There’s no cure for it. "

Linky Dink

There's nothing inherently wrong with requiring photo ids for all voters. As soon as you get a photo id into the hands of everybody in the state, then we can implement it. Until then, keep trying to pass out those IDs.

I think a good ID system could actually benefit some down-and-outers, because they could get some benefits with ID.

That was my point. We get the courts to put off implementing the photo ID requirement until AFTER everybody has an ID. Logically, that is perfectly reasonable unless your intent is voter suppression. (Which would of course be illegal.)

With Republican state spending priorities, that will probably be never.

All the Democrats have to do to defeat Republicans is show their agenda priorities: take away voting rights, take away personal liberties, take away your jobs, take away any social security or welfare benefits, then spend what little budget is left to line the pockets of the wealthiest donors of the donor class. Does it never strike their supporters as odd that the party treats then with such contempt?