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2008 presidential election, the exit polls show 74% of them were white and 71.3% eligible voters today are white. even though 63.7% of white are nonhispanic whites, which is a reminder, that the white vote is still a powerful electorate blo bloc that cannot be ignored. a last time a presidential candidate won the white vote? one clue, the same year that the 24th amendment abolished the jim crow practice of the poll tax. yes, the last time a democrat won the white vote was in 1964, wh lyndon johnson routed goldwater. jimmy carter came close, with 47%. no other democrat became within striking di...

Interlocutory appeals. these are judges that are going to make decisions that can make the case go away. they can dismiss the case. they can interpret the law in the way to what the 1965 voters rights act doesn't have any teeth at all. 11 months is not enough time to fix the problem. it's going to be chaos. it's going to be discrimination. the new jim crow type of era is on us. and what's happened, ed, is it happened to us while we weren't paying attention. >> well, professor, tell us, what is the heaviest lift here? what is the biggest obstruction that what you can see of any of the laws pass...

If you cast your first vote anytime after the advent of push-button telephones, by law you should never have encountered a poll tax. this is a receipt for a poll tax in florida. before 1964, it was still legal in this country to charge a tax, to charge money for the privilege of voting. the 24th amendment put an end to that. at least in federal elections. the next year in 1965, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act which made it illegal to tax people wanting to cast a ballot in a state election or local election as well. but before then, you could make people pay money as a con...

If you cast your first vote anytime after the advent of push-button telephones, by law you should never have encountered a poll tax. this is a receipt for a poll tax in florida. before 1964, it was still legal in this country to charge a tax, to charge money for the privilege of voting. the 24th amendment put an end to that. at least in federal elections. the next year in 1965, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act which made it illegal to tax people wanting to cast a ballot in a state election or local election as well. but before then, you could make people pay money as a con...

If you cast your first vote anytime after the advent of push-button telephones, by law you should never have encountered a poll tax. this is a receipt for a poll tax in florida. before 1964, it was still legal in this country to charge a tax, to charge money for the privilege of voting. the 24th amendment put an end to that. at least in federal elections. the next year in 1965, president lyndon johnson signed the voting rights act which made it illegal to tax people wanting to cast a ballot in a state election or local election as well. but before then, you could make people pay money as a con...