GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote

In a little-noted development this week, the GOP launched a campaign to deprive citizens of Michigan who have had their homes foreclosed of their right to vote. Most of the targeted citizens remain official residents of those homes, which calls into question the wisdom of this particular conniving effort. Regardless, Obama filed suit in Michigan state court to block the GOP.

In Obama's filing, the latest GOP scheme to block the votes of disenfranchised citizens is set within a larger historical context of previous statewide and national programs to do the same. Here's an excerpt:

"Defendant Republicans have a long history of engaging in coordinated, systematic campaigns to suppress and deny the right to vote of American citizens. Those campaigns are often targeted at various racial groups, language minorities, or individuals of low or modest economic circumstances whom Defendant Republicans believe are unlikely to support them in political campaigns."

Though the court is likely to rule narrowly and avoid implicating Republican leaders in widespread insidious actions, I commend Obama for going for the juggular.

If McCain wants to play dirty, Obama is going to let the courts and eventually, the media, scrub him clean.

You can access the entire class action suit here: http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/09/17/ObamavMich.pdf