Voter Suppresion as a Political Strategy

New Republic: “For every unit of energy and resources Democrats devote to reduce the difference between their midterm and general electorates, Republicans are responding–not with turnout-boosting strategies of their own, but by making it harder for the pool of voters who make up that difference to vote, even if they want to. In a way, the story of the 2014 elections can be boiled down to two counterposed strategies, with Democrats on one side trying to mitigate their midterm drop off and Republicans trying to exacerbate it.”