GOP Senate Candidate Suggests The Voting Rights Act Of 1965 Should Be Overturned

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Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP's candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to "look at or overturn" the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting proceedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said that states — not the federal government — should set voting rules. According to Akin, elections "have historically always been a state thing" and that's a "good principle."

Fired Up Missouri has the video from St. Louis Fox 2:

Edited August 18, 2012 by Commie Appeaser

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/17/710101/gop-senate-candidate-suggests-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965-should-be-overturned

Isn't normal practice to credit the original source of an OP article as quoted, not just refer to a link within that article? Wouldn't it be a deliberate intention to mislead the VJ members as to the correct source of the article, so that they can make an informed judgement, whether or not to discount the source, and therefore the OP article as pure political propoganda?

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But ... I thought Fox News only told lies? So this is a lie?

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But ... I thought Fox News only told lies? So this is a lie?

More likely an incomplete "truth".