I’m not sure AVR would have a chance of passage in the Senate as a stand-alone either. An expanded electorate tends to benefit Democrats (the newly added voters will be largely POC, younger and female, plus a smaller number of rural) so Republicans have no incentive to sign on.
As usual the Dems are fucking things up. Pass a stand-alone automatic voter registration bill and it will sail through both houses. Wrap it up in a repeal of Citizens United and it’s DOA. But here, Dems admit it’s just a political tactic for 2020 and not a real bill.https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1062025982142373892 …
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Make them say no. Make them vote on it and reject it. Make them reject legislation on guns, climate change, health care, immigration, infrastructure, all of it.
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MAKE THEM SAY NO.
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Agree. Get every one of the no votes on the record.
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In the Trump era, what makes you think that scares them?
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It doesn’t matter if it scares them. It’s that we use it to bring our case to the American people.
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If you think an expansion of voting would sail through both houses, you clearly haven’t paid attention to the last ten years of Republican voter suppression, gerrymandering and election rigging.
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Or paid any attention to what Mitch McConnell has been up to for his entire career.
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I am extremely interested in why you think automatic voter registration would "sail through both houses"
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McConnell never brings it to the floor.
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This. Also — any citizens united language would be non binding. It will take a constitutional amendment to repeal.
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*overturn
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AVR passed in MD with very few Republican votes and without the signature of the Republican governor. I am skeptical it would even be brought to the floor of the US Senate.
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Even if any such bill is highly unlikely to move in the Senate (let alone be signed by the President), they should do as much as possible to bring a spotlight to these issues.
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I wholeheartedly agree, but I'm disputing the notion that AVR would pass the US Senate (see tweet I'm responding to). Republicans are against AVR.
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I understood what you were saying. My comment was that it is not a political stunt, or at least, should not be.
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So you oppose inclusion of the provision in this bill to raise its profile because it's unlikely to pass, but you support a standalone bill, even though it's unlikely to pass, to raise its profile?
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Not sure if you are talking to me, but I support any effort to move these issues forward, even if the likelihood of legislative success in the immediate short-term is more remote.
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