Morning Quote: David Axelrod

Top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod to Fox News host Chris Wallace who repeated the completely false Republican claim that the Obama administration is trying to prevent the military from voting early in Ohio, emphasis mine: 

“I absolutely do and the way you stated it and the way, frankly, Gov. Romney has stated it, is completely false and misleading! What that lawsuit calls for is not to deprive the military of the right to vote on the final weekend of the campaign -- of course they should have that right. What that suit is about is whether the rest of Ohio should have the same right.

And I think it's shameful that Gov. Romney would hide behind our servicemen and women to try and win a lawsuit to try and deprive other Ohioans of their right to vote. ”

According to Crooks and Liars “Ohio's Republican-controlled legislature last year enacted new voting restrictions that prevented most voters from casting early ballots after the Friday before the election. Members of the military, however, had their rights preserved, giving them until Monday to vote.” and the Obama Campaign is suing to restore that right to cast an early ballot just prior to the election to all voters in Ohio.