Bernie Sanders Needs to Talk About Voting Rights

No debate can get to every topic that matters to every voter. But access to the ballot box has been the one topic missing in 2016.

Jamil Smith, a Senior Editor at the New Republic, writes:

This should be one of the first things Sanders asks new surrogate Ben Jealous, the former NAACP chairman, to help him with. In addition to potentially attracting black voters, there could be value in this white man emphasizing to his largely white base of supporters, one which takes particular pride in their candidate’s past civil rights activism, that minority disenfranchisement is a priority. It would provide an opening to remind them and the American public at large that racism is inherently a white problem and that, ultimately, white people are responsible for ending it.

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Jacqueline Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, writes in HUFFPOST POLITICS:

You reminded the country that we have to choose what kind of country we want to be--whether or not we can "get it done" in the next session of Congress. And you have reminded the Left that its role is to lead, not just to protest or to be the "experts" on progress for the American people. Any Left worth its salt has to bring political empowerment to those who lack it. After all, that's what a political revolution is. It's a transfer of power from a set of autocratic institutions to a new set of democratic institutions, maybe even to a set of anti-institutions.

Now comes the tougher stuff. You have to do more than show that Hillary is vulnerable. You have to show that you can shape and lead an expanding electoral majority, one that "crosses the Rubicon" beyond the Democratic Party and beyond the orthodox liberal Left.

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