suppress the vote may have changed. but the struggle remains the same. joining me now on our rapid response panel, annette tadao, doing a wonderful job of fighting suppression and also registering voters. and michael eric dyson, georgetown university professor and msnbc political analyst. doctor, you first. how clear-cut is it that this, i believe that this is race-based. this is going after minorities. this is going after low-income families. this is going after folks in the city. your thoughts. there is no question, ed. it is targeted and specific and perniciously so. because when you re undermining public financing for judicial elections, when you re undermining the capacity of same-day registration. when you re challenging the i.d.s that people have used in the past to vote and now all of a sudden you want to introduce
johnnie come latelies and i am laters of this. and i think in that sense, it will be extraordinarily corrosive. we have to be vigorous about making sure this is a test case that comes out in the favor of those who are democrats, small d. those who cherish the precious ability to vote in america. no doubt. annette and michael eric dyson, thank you for joining us on the ed show. appreciate it. coming up, conservatives continue their war on christmas, and santa is the newest target. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain. ready or not. [ female announcer ] .so you can be up there. here i come! [ female announcer ] .down there, around there. and under there for him. tylenol® provides strong pain relief and won t irritate your stomach the way aleve® or even advil® can. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®.
more strenuous laws, there s little doubt that there is a targeting of african-american and other people of color and other oh poor people, and in some cases older people. so this is a vicious repudiation of the very principle of democracy, which is an open election. here we are, complaining about people during the mandela festivities that, oh, my god, he embraced communists. here we are in this country, refusing to acknowledge that what we re doing is the very antithesis of democracy itself. there is little question it s a racially charged event. annette, what does this say to young people, and do young people understand what s going on? the people that you re registering, the fight you ve had in florida. is the public on top of this? very much so. i think we re trying to do our best. as you said. to try to relay this message about especially down here. we have a governor that did this the last time. and he tried, and it didn t work. i mean, they didn t win the vote
0 so the catch would be, if it s unlimited, they would have to prove that they have gone to school, they have taken some training, they have tried to better themselves. and we would show a great deal of passion as a country if we were to do that. now, i have given a solution. i haven t heard any solutions from anybody in congress on what we re going to do, other than to extend. it wouldn t be a handout. you would have to go make sure that you re trying to better yourself. and you could prove it through documentation, through any county commissioner that s elected in any county in this country where you live. it s really not that hard to do. the easy thing to do is just vote and protect your rear end so you can go home and say i didn t raise your taxes, we didn t close the loopholes. and, of course, we re never going to have a shutdown again for the next two years, so we ve got the tea partiers all in the corner now and all quiet and this is the deal. well, here s the bottom line. what
he said these comments behind closed doors to people he needed their support and money and it s just a condemnation of who he is. then of course, he supports the ryan plan. great to have both of you with us tonight. two of the best, no question about it. thanks for being on the ed show. remember to answer tonight s question. share your thoughts on twitter @edshow. coming up, today was the final day to register voters in some key swing states. annette tadao will join me soon to talk about the youth vote. that could be the key for president obama here in the state of florida. we re right back. stay with us. swhooiter is. you can prevent gas with beano meltaways,