Uh-oh, Reince Priebus has figured out the scheme:
RNC Chairman: Tom Steyer, Democratic allies trying to keep GOP voters away from polls
By Reince Priebus – Published October 14, 2014 – FoxNews.com
Tom Steyer’s dark money special interest group, NextGen Climate, knows Democrats can’t win this election on the issues this year—especially not on Steyer’s radical anti-energy agenda. So they have a new plan: suppress the Republican vote.
Damn it! I just knew that teaming up with Tom Steyer would end up with a disaster like this. We should have been more careful. Because now Reince has laid bare our secrets to the world—we plan to suppress the vote. And how are we planning to do this?
In a September memo to their state teams, NextGen lays out a plan to “degrade Republican performance” by “dampening Republican enthusiasm levels.” By spreading misinformation about Republican candidates, they’re hoping to divide our party in a last-ditch attempt to save theirs.
Oh, wait. Maybe this isn’t so bad. Maybe Reince hasn’t uncovered evidence that we plan to stop Republicans from voting. Instead, Tom Steyer’s group is exploring whether or not there are messages that would make Republicans less likely to vote for Republicans.
To put it another way, Steyer’s group aims to convince people not to vote for Republicans. I guess you could call that suppressing the vote, if by suppressing the vote you mean something completely different than every other person who uses that phrase.
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The funny thing is that the memo to which Reince refers does not even conclude that reducing Republican enthusiasm is a viable strategy—it just suggests exploring it. The bulk of the memo is focused on how to increase turnout among voters that are likely to sit out the election and how to persuade voters who are sitting on the fence. Or, as Reince might put it, the rest of the memo is about how Democrats plan to steal the election from the rightful winners.
