Supreme Court: States can purge voters who don't vote or respond to warnings

Supreme Court: States can purge voters who don't vote or respond to warnings https://t.co/dmMGtvK9oI pic.twitter.com/WN4U9XQ7El

— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) June 11, 2018

Fun California thing. Any registered voter can vote by mail, and lots do. As long as the ballot is *postmarked* by today, it's valid. So we could very well see some races undecided even after the early hours of tomorrow morning.

69% of voters used mail ballots in the last midterm primary, in 2014. And mail voting has grown election-over-election for the past two decades. https://t.co/wmUoo2O6DX

— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) June 6, 2018

Fun California thing. Any registered voter can vote by mail, and lots do. As long as the ballot is *postmarked* by today, it's valid. So we could very well see some races undecided even after the early hours of tomorrow morning.

— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) June 6, 2018

California's primary results are absolutely critical for Democrats' chances at the majority in 2019https://t.co/l32AXHG7VR pic.twitter.com/CCkvzCysCK

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 6, 2018

Want to know how concerned Dems are about being locked out of California's top-two primaries? The DCCC spent over $100,000 *supporting* fringe Republican contender John Gabbard over last few weeks in effort to water down GOP vote in CA-48. pic.twitter.com/XgjInXw6d0

— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) June 6, 2018

Kobach: Reports stating that 44 states have "refused" to provide data to voter commission are "patently false."

Kobach: Reports stating that 44 states have "refused" to provide data to voter commission are "patently false." https://t.co/qsYsV4edJN pic.twitter.com/e5CPEyJjMf

— Boston Herald (@bostonherald) July 5, 2017

Trump admin rips reports of states refusing to work with voter fraud commission as "fake news" https://t.co/XgZzpJSooL pic.twitter.com/e6Ue9SPMYV

— The Hill (@thehill) July 6, 2017

REPUBLICAN VOTER SURGE...

New Ohio poll: Trump leads by 5 points... @JoeNBC: This race is a toss-up. https://t.co/nLZRW6SDV0

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 14, 2016

REPUBLICAN VOTER SURGE... https://t.co/lYXneSmHvx

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 14, 2016

CLINTON CRASH... https://t.co/P6Y4TgDa0f

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 14, 2016

.@realDonaldTrump is up 5 pts NATIONALLY in latest @latimes poll! https://t.co/ooYuKdnUaw pic.twitter.com/8mh7buD0oZ

— Official Team Trump (@TeamTrump) September 14, 2016

The end of the GOP primary could decimate turnout in CA

Smart @WaPoVanessa story on how the end of the GOP primary could decimate turnout in CA — a jungle primary state. https://t.co/RNfGmWwIVO

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 6, 2016

One side effect of Donald Trump’s securing the GOP presidential nod: Republicans might no longer turn out to vote for their House and Senate candidates in the remaining congressional primaries.

The down-ballot effect could be especially pronounced in California’s June 7 Senate primary, where Democrats and Republicans will be on the same ballot in the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D). The top two vote-getters, regardless of party, will advance to the general election....

“At this point in time, it’s increasingly likely that we will see a Democrat on Democrat runoff,” said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant based in California....

Polls have consistently shown Harris leading the California race, with one out this week putting her support at 29 percent, followed by Sanchez with 18 percent.

The next closest competitor is Republican Tom Del Becarro, a former chairman of the California Republican Party, who drew 10 percent support in the KABC/Survey USA poll. Close on his heels are Ron Unz, a Republican activist with 8 percent and Duf Sundheim, a former state party chairman, with 7 percent.

The poll, which was released Monday, before Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich dropped out of the presidential race, noted that a competitive presidential primary might have boosted Republican turnout and given one of the Republicans a shot at overtaking Sanchez....

The California Republican Party held its convention last weekend, drawing hundreds of members to hear the three presidential candidates make their pitches. But on Sunday, only a few dozen people showed up to hear Del Becarro, Sundheim and Unz speak.

Del Becarro and Sundheim said they believe that Republican voters will still show up for the primary.

TRUMP MOST VOTES IN REPUBLICAN HISTORY

TRUMP MOST VOTES IN REPUBLICAN HISTORY https://t.co/9zxeh0RJDa

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 28, 2016

Top GOP lawmakers endorse Trump for president: https://t.co/N4kgHrw3gh pic.twitter.com/Fm3rI2csDl

— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2016

GOP establishment warms to Trump: https://t.co/Pl6gNAhATc pic.twitter.com/eIcVtquMaT

— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2016

CBS: Trump can beat Clinton... https://t.co/rFe2TpVWRc

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 28, 2016

NEW POLL: Trump holds double-digit lead in Oregon https://t.co/VP6lNSodnE pic.twitter.com/vq6Sk10V87

— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2016

HILLARY: PROUD... VA Gov Gives 200,000 Felons Voting Rights...'Move to boost Clinton'... Makes rapists, murderers eligible...

VA Gov Gives 200,000+ Felons November Voting Rights... https://t.co/emrzDF7cax

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 22, 2016

HILLARY: PROUD OF MY FRIEND... https://t.co/m05090cV5z

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 22, 2016

The Enthusiasm Gap

GOP Voters Head to Polls in MASSIVE Numbers, Democrat Turn Out Falters https://t.co/zCvTeTWM7Q pic.twitter.com/tuQSBC3ynH

— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 2, 2016

Surge of GOP youth voters on #SuperTuesday while Dem numbers fall https://t.co/BUkx1ZC9KI pic.twitter.com/dxqcertJmi

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 3, 2016

Obama calls for mandatory voting in U.S.

Phase 1: Import millions of Democrat voters Phase 2: Force them to vote Phase 3: Propaganda Phase 4: UNLIMITED POWER http://t.co/z0iV0J8OPZ

— Justine Tunney (@JustineTunney) March 19, 2015

Oregon Governor Implements Controversial Automatic Voter Registration http://t.co/s137gxFb4r pic.twitter.com/iUmp75DoaW

— IJReview (@ijreview) March 21, 2015

“I’d rather be boots on the ground."

◼ This Spunky College Intern Is the Face of the New Republican Ground Game - The Daily Signal

...At 21, Johnson — like the college-aged interns he works with — thinks often about the GOP’s direction.

“We can be just as passionate as the next guy,” Johnson says.

“But we have to be open-minded. We want a sound economy. We are concerned about our college and our homes. We’re all just young guys starting our lives. It’s really exciting.”

The Real Voter Suppression of 2012

◼ Voter ID didn’t reduce turnout, but the IRS may have. - John Fund/National Review

...Jim Bopp, the election-law attorney, hopes some good will come out of the IRS scandal. “What’s clear is that bureaucrats and regulators can abuse the system when there aren’t bright lines. This should teach us we have to nail down exactly what the permissible level of political activity for a non-profit is. That will make it harder for arbitrary and capricious bureaucrats who might want to misuse their power.”

It won’t be easy to discover whether the “voter suppression” engaged in by the IRS was malicious and political. But we have to make every effort to find out before the American people start losing confidence in the integrity of our elections.
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Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP

◼ After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White House? - Byron York/Washington Examiner @ByronYork

A lot.

According to the Times' calculator, Romney would have had to win 73 percent of the Hispanic vote to prevail in 2012. Which suggests that Romney, and Republicans, had bigger problems than Hispanic voters.

The most serious of those problems was that Romney was not able to connect with white voters who were so turned off by the campaign that they abandoned the GOP and in many cases stayed away from the polls altogether. Recent reports suggest as many as 5 million white voters simply stayed home on Election Day. If they had voted at the same rate they did in 2004, even with the demographic changes since then, Romney would have won.

Likewise, the white vote is so large that an improvement of 4 points -- going from 60 percent to 64 percent of those whites who did vote -- would have won the race for Romney.

So which would have been a more realistic goal for Romney -- matching the white turnout from just a few years earlier, or winning 73 percent of Hispanic voters?

...Romney lost because he did not appeal to the millions of Americans who have seen their standard of living decline over the past decades. They're nervous about the future. When Romney did not address their concerns, they either voted for Obama or didn't vote at all. If the next Republican candidate can address their concerns effectively, he will win. And, amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process. A lot from other groups, too.

It would do more than any immigration bill or outreach program ever could.