Near the top of the list of things driving the professional left to distraction this year is the popularity of voter ID laws. The laws have strong support, are perfectly constitutional and have been passed or are pending in 15 states.
That infuriates lefties since they reflexively view such laws as a scheme to suppress poor, elderly and minority voters. It has driven House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi so batty that she thinks the entire Fast and Furious probe is just a smokescreen for it.
But there is rhetoric and then there is the legislative reality. As much as the left may hate these these laws, they are on the books in many states now. So they have stepped up their voter-registration efforts.
By getting these voters properly registered and ready to vote though, the liberal groups are, whether they realize it or not, undermining their own case against the laws. That is, these registration drives underscore that there really is no good reason for why these voters cannot obtain ID and be prepared in the first place.
An AFL-CIO official highly involved in these drives conceded to me last month the “irony” of their efforts but added, “We have to deal with the facts on the ground.”
A recent post on the AFL-CIO website shows just how extensive these efforts are:
Good for them, I say. With more efforts like this, voter ID laws could fade from controversy altogether.
