Democrats’ sullen acceptance of voter ID laws continues HotAir

Looking further down the playing field, however, what Manchin has really done is taken the debate over voter ID off the table well into the future, and for the same reasons. If they try to ram anything like that through in the coming months and years, how will they explain the double flip-flop? That s not to say that some of them wouldn t do it unabashedly anyway, but their hypocrisy would be on full display.

While many in Chuck Schumer s caucus may not be happy about it now, this may be a bitter dose of medicine that will benefit them in the end. As we previously discussed, the latest rounds of polling demonstrate that voter ID laws are popular. And not by a slim margin. Fewer than one in five voters believe that voter ID laws amount to some sort of suppression and should be done away with. The vast majority see such laws as making elections more secure. So in the end, Joe Manchin may have led his reluctant tribe in the direction of doing not only what s right, but something that helps them in future races.

via hotair.com

I don’t know. Is a double flip-flop so much harder to explain than the initial flip-flop?