It's been a bit of a rough week for race-baiting leftists in America, as an attention-grabbing Monmouth poll once again revealed that an overwhelming majority of US voters favor election provisions requiring photo identification in order to cast a ballot. This broad consensus is nothing new, but amid high-decibel demagoguery over state-level voting laws, the data point is striking. Perhaps the most remarkable polling result on this question was that voters of color – the supposed "victims" of ID laws, according to infantilizing leftist propaganda – were more likely to support the requirement than whites.
The tedious, insulting "Jim Crow" talking point has failed spectacularly:
84 percent (!) of *non-white* voters favor voter ID requirements, which Democrats have been arguing for years is the modern day equivalent of Jim Crow racism. https://t.co/fyCw7IWfLS
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 21, 2021
Merely 77 percent of white respondents support voter ID, versus 84 percent of voters of color. It looks like even Democrats like Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock are starting to realize their arguments on this issue (shouted by Democrats for years, by the way) are duds, which might explain why they're suddenly trying to pretend that they never had a problem with voter ID mandates. That's going to be a tough about-face to pull off:
Democrat Raphael Warnock today to NBC News: "I have never been opposed to voter ID"
— Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) June 17, 2021
Warnock in 2012: "most destructive assault on the voting rights... since the ugly days of Jim Crow... it all began right here in Georgia with these unnecessary and unjustifiable voter ID laws..." pic.twitter.com/K7SlG9Zo13
Why the change of heart, @staceyabrams? pic.twitter.com/Le11w1pjJS
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2021
Allahpundit attempts to answer the RNC's rhetorical question, postulating that Abrams & Co. realize they're losing the messaging battle over ID laws – in a rout, in fact. And now that Joe Manchin has endorsed a separate voting overhaul that includes mandatory voter ID, they're deciding to give up the ghost on one of their pet issues and move on. I think this analysis is more than plausible. But it will, or at least it should, be very difficult for people who have for years screamed bloody murder over "suppression" whenever voter ID laws were debated or passed to just abruptly shrug and claim that they were never really against the idea. Meanwhile, the left-wing race obsessives may be talking themselves into another dilemma with normal voters:
Is the argument over critical race theory a political winner for Republicans? Battleground polling from @The_RGA and @NRSC: pic.twitter.com/1hkCf0ORtk
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) June 21, 2021
"The US was founded on the practice of slavery and white supremacy which continues to this day." Disagree/Agree?
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) June 21, 2021
All Voters: 68% to 27%
Independents: 76% to 20%
Strong Democrats: 28% to 67%
The hardcore Democratic base believes the Critical Race Theory/systemic racism/white supremacy poison, but most others – especially independents – do not. Granted, this survey was commissioned by Republicans, but the questions aren't much of an exaggeration of the views being promulgated by lefty activists and amplified in the press. It's a minefield, and if the GOP handles these tensions intelligently (not a guarantee by any means), it could spell real trouble for Democrats trying to straddle a barbed-wire fence. I'll leave you with the latest examples of the hard Left's endlessly escalating and profoundly off-putting skin color fixation:
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"White and light-skinned Latinxs who use their access to Spanish, as a first or second language, as a distancing mechanism from their Whiteness." https://t.co/i83ZVIVsyQ
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 22, 2021
WaPo explainer video encourages white people to feel “shame,” create “white accountability groups” https://t.co/vry6oRq4wy pic.twitter.com/Imjus175sS
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 21, 2021
