Man, I can certainly agree with educating the electorate! People on all sides of the political spectrum are too ignorant of the issues, tend to read only the "talking points" that they tend to agree with, and vote with those "talking points". Many times the talking points are a bunch of bunk, spin the truth into a lie (because if it isn't the whole truth, it is a lie!), and leave many in the electorate uneducated on the issues. This was a warning from many of the founders and framers, and it is overly evident today.

On the timing issue, that is a great suggestion. It is too bad we haven't been able to begin the process becasue of the very ignoarance you alude to above, and because of the divisive "race baiters" who cry wolf and file bogus law suits based on unsubstantiated "facts". Also, because too many, in our currrent judiciary, tend to interpret the constitution to make it fit the proposal or law they want instead of interpreting the law in light of what the constitution plainly says. If we had done the process more two years ago, it would have been done by now for the most part.

If they care so much about the disenfranchised (whatever that overused cliche means), then why don't they spend much of their efforts overhauling the "broken" welfare system and structure so they don't trap, generationally, the very people they say they care about. The Pubs care about those folks too buddy, it is not the exclusive of the Dems (who have stuctured the system to build in their own voting block to a degree). To say the Pubs don't care is a false, overused, "talking point" in itself.

By the young, do you mean the one's who can't get a photo ID but who probably own a cell phone (or are given one by the government who is us taxpayers), chat on Twitter and Facebook, and can email and use social media better than many - those young people?