We suffer when

conservatives are stuffed into the state legislatures.
No sooner are they sworn in than they start writhing on the floor speaking in tongues, brandishing revolvers like they are Deputy Barney Fife and looking for someone, anyone as long as they are sorta weak & ineffectual to rough up.
Case in point, the New Hampshire State Legislature which is planning to fly in the face of a fifty years of settled practice and jurisprudence by trying to restrict the voting rights of college students.
Mighod these mooks are serious the law they propose will not only prevent the Dartmouth Review from voting for Michele Bachmann but it will likely also prevent active-duty soldiery from NH from exercising the franchise.
The GOP super majority in Concord is saying to all the world, "we like student-interns and we can send them out for lunch and get them to pick up our dry cleaning, but we don't like it when they vote..."
The Granite State is still mired in recession and this is what the citzenry's representatives think is a priority.
Not for nothing, but it won't stop undergraduates from volunteering on campaigns, most of Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy's legionaries couldn't vote at all in 1968.
No this is more of the politics of grievance at work, they guys just wanna give someone a hard time, it's an ongoing conservative fixation quite frankly.
Anything to punish the liberals I guess, no matter who get beat up in the process...