On Adamize, Adam and Brentin discuss the Tea Party push for voter ID laws. Would these laws be less onerous if states provided voters with free IDs? Is there a constitutional right to vote, and would universal voter registration make a difference? Has the Obama administration adequately enforced civil rights laws with regard to voting? Switching gears, they criticize conservative outlets for hyping a 2007 video of Obama discussing race. Finally, they differ over whether race played a role in Obama’s poor showing in the first debate.
Play entire videoBrentin’s coverage of voting rights for Colorlines
Brentin’s article on True the Vote for The Nation
Website of True the Vote
Full video of Obama’s 2007 speech at Hampton University
The Daily Show’s response to Drudge
The Daily Caller’s promotion of the Obama video
Video of Romney saying “Who let the dogs out?”
Video of Obama referring to “Cousin Pookie”
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s article “Fear of a Black President”
Full video of the first Obama-Romney debate
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