election without getting the votes. now, voter suppression tactics are hardly new across america. obama campaign veteran says you go back to the founding of the country, it was only white male landowners who were envisioned as voting. then you had jim crow and more racism. you only had women s suffrage in the modern era, but what we see now is different from just franchisement and a debate over that, it was a party that elected to not just win races in the sphere. they said they need something akin to those earlier limitations to win elections. now, there are plenty of times the republicans do win races, and again, we re talking about the big enchilada, the white house, the power. at the local level, the republicans who obviously have