With poll after poll showing young voters trending Democratic in ever increasing numbers, Republicans nationwide have apparently embraced a new strategy for addressing this daunting demographic challenge: don't let young voters vote.

For example, in January, New Hampshire Republican House Speaker Bill O'Brien was caught on tape expressing his dismay with young voters:

"They go into these general elections, they'll have 900 same day registrations, which are the kids coming out of the schools and basically doing what I did when I was a kid, which is [vote liberal]," he said. "They don't have life experience and they don't have life experience and they just vote their feelings and they're taking away the town's ability to govern themselves, it's not fair."

Get that? It's "not fair" that young voters don't vote the way their Republican elders want them to vote. And that's why New Hampshire Republicans have introduced two bills intended to make it harder for many young voters to register.

The push is a part of a trend in states, particularly where Republicans made major gains in the 2010 election. Many of those states are advancing voter ID laws, nominally meant to crack down on the unsubstantial problem of voter fraud, but which in practice are meant to disenfranchise young and poor liberal voters.

Because you know, if everybody who was legally eligible voted, Republicans would never be in a position to pass bills like this.