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Fox News was whining about this recently, as if homeless people ought to be disenfranchised. They kept asking their local correspondent whether the GOTV people had coached any of the new voters on which ticket they should vote for, and the correspondent had to admit that, no, they hadn't. They had just brought these people to the registration centers and showed them how to file their ballots but left it up to them to choose their candidate. Then Fox played a clip of a homeless man being asked for whom he'd voted, and answering with a wide grin: "I'm for Baraaaaack!" Cool, I thought, even though I'm less enthusiastic about Obama. But then again, I'm less exposed to the vicissitudes of state policy, and more accustomed to being taken seriously by the system. It was really very moving, an affirmation of the egalitarian principles of democracy. That these "conservatives" find it so viscerally objectionable is just further evidence (if any were needed) of the spuriousness of their fascist pseudo-populist "Main Street" bigotry.
