I’d guess the voter ID law is probably worth about 2 points for Romney. It’s definitely not enough to close the 6 point gap with Obama. The polling in recent months shows Obama with somewhere between a 6 and a 10 point lead.
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I’d guess the voter ID law is probably worth about 2 points for Romney. It’s definitely not enough to close the 6 point gap with Obama. The polling in recent months shows Obama with somewhere between a 6 and a 10 point lead.
May 24, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
Hooray! Bethlehem Council’s progressive majority will now have real governing power. It might be a good strategy to elect Willie Reynolds as Council President, since he was the progressive standard bearer in the Mayor race, and insofar as someone will be the face of Council opposite the Mayor, the symbolism would be fairly potent. Painting [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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I like the law, but we need to follow it up to get IDs in the hands of the people that need them, quickly (and free for low/mod income eligible voters).
This isn’t rocket science – get 2 dozen mobile photo ID centers, staff them with people who aren’t perpetually surly and know what to do (that eliminates all of PennDOT’s employees), and get them out there.
If you know someone who needs help getting an ID to vote, then help them get it taken care of (great charity project for you to work on Jon – but don’t discriminate against conservative people, that means it’s not charity it’s partisan politics and pretty slimy to boot, even for you).