Republican or Democrat?

Remember during the 2000 presidential election when Democratic operatives in Florida were fighting to have military absentee ballots tossed out, while Republicans were fighting equally hard (and thankfully successfully) to allow them? A new article in the Indianapolis Star suggests why:

"Relatively few liberals and Democrats now serve in the military. This was my anecdotal observation when I was in the Army in the late 1980s, and according to Lehman, nearly 80 percent of those in the military today identify themselves as Republicans."

The Democrats, meanwhile, have identified their next big voting block: ex-convicts and convicted felons. As this blogger at TalkLeft.com points out:

"...if [Florida's] 613,000 former felons had been permitted to vote — and even if you factor in a far-lower-than-expected turnout rate than the general population — Al Gore would have defeated George W. Bush by about 60,000 votes and would have been elected president. What's more, if all U.S. felons — in and out of prison — had been allowed to vote, Gore might have carried the nation by more than 1 million votes."

I will leave it to you to decide the group with which you would like to identify, and which one you trust to elect your next congressman.