Pandering to felons?!!-----The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive

The Voting Effect of Virginia’s Move on Felons? Small but Potentially Decisive - The New York Times:
"There was considerable fretting — or satisfaction — over Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s decision Friday to re-enfranchise 200,000 ex-felons in Virginia.
The state will be one of the central battlegrounds this November, and it’s widely believed that ex-felons will vote heavily for Democrats. (More than half are African-Americans, a big voting bloc for the party.)
And the big number of newly enfranchised voters — 200,000 — is actually larger than Mr. Obama’s 149,298-vote margin of victory there in 2012.
But the electoral effect of felon re-enfranchisement is likely to be modest.
The best-case scenario for Democrats might be that they improve their popular vote margin by a half-point.
That’s a big deal, but only in a close election..."