Let Every Vote Be Counted

Bad news for Republicans: If Hillary Clinton and John Kerry succeed in getting felons registered to vote in the expectation that criminals are a natural Democratic constituency, they should extend their concern to cows. And chickens, pigs, goats and even sheep. This sounds at first like another cheap sheep joke, but researchers at two prestigious universities say animal emotions are so similar to the emotions of humans that we might have to revise thinking about animal welfare. And then, of course, about voting rights. If baboons get the right to vote, there will never be a Republican in the White House or Congress again.