Who could have guessed that campaigning on taking away voters’ voting rights wouldn’t catch fire with voters?
Politicians are funny folks, right and left. And a lot of Republicans have been happy to get behind pretty much anything the Tea Partiers have run up the flag pole. But it turns out that maybe campaigning on taking away people’s right to vote for their senators wasn’t such a hot idea. And now a few Republicans — like Steve Stivers in Ohio and among others — are now trying to backtrack as fast as they can.