Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) diatribe against big business could spawn volumes of analysis. The text tells many tales: the frayed coalition between the board room and the pick-up truck, hypocrisy, and more.
What struck me most was the fundamental inaccuracy of nearly every assertion and premise on which McConnell built his remarks.
Start with the simplest: that voting rights is “a highly controversial issue.” It’s not. Most everyone, except Republican officeholders, believes that barriers to citizens voting ought to be dismantled, not erected anew. Polls show Americans support voting rights legislation by over 50 points, with Republicans favoring it by 35 points and more. Specific elements of the voting rights agenda elicit margins of 20 to 50 points. CONTINUED
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill