Posted on 10/28/2008 10:34:41 AM PDT by bs9021
Will ACORN Steal the Election?
Bethany Stotts, October 28, 2008
Will the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) steal the 2008 election for Barack Obama? Investigations into ACORN’s voter registration efforts have spread across the nation, with the Associated Press reporting that an FBI investigation of the group is underway. But according to an October 19th Rasmussen poll only 36% of those surveyed believed that Obama has ties to ACORN, while 29% were “not sure.”
The poll found that those people “who say they are following news stories about ACORN very closely, believe that the group is deliberately registering illegal voters and that Obama or his campaign is affiliated with it exceed 60%.”
Barack Obama has denied any recent connection with ACORN. “Apparently what [ACORN has] done is they were paying people to go out and register folks, and apparently some of the people who were out there didn’t really register people, they just filled out a bunch of names,” Obama said during the last presidential debate.
“It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I’ve had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.”
Obama also gave more than $800,000 to Citizen Services Inc., an ACORN subsidiary, for “get out the vote” activities during the Democratic primary, a fact the candidate initially tried to conceal.
Obama’s “Fight the Smears” website claims that “ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration Barack ran in 1992.”
“Now ACORN says ‘we only had him for two conferences, for one hour each,’ but that’s not what contemporary newspaper accounts at the time say,” commented John Fund, author of Stealing Elections, at Heritage last Monday...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Dead people, felons, and the naive for Obama!
Yes, they are trying to do just that.
YES, the GOP will be to whimpy to go after them....so we will have to just suck it up.
Where’s that photo of a bear sitting on a toilet in the woods? Anyone?
Unfortunately, they already have.
Yes. No doubt there are a significant number of people who believe the Republicans have stolen the past two elections so they are entitled to do the same thing. The problem with the Bush Administration is that in trying to put the negative politics of the Clinton Administration behind them and in trying to appear “above the fray”, it failed to adequately defend itself and Republicans and Conservatives so all of us have been demonized for the past eight years and the chickens are coming home to roost. Politics is played in a muddy gutter arena and those who don’t want to risk getting dirty will hurt themselves and others.
ACORN is a criminal organization. Actually, the whole RAT party has become a criminal enterprise, but since they control the government and the media, they can get away with it. If the RATS control all branches of government and the media, we’ll be just like the old USSR. I would have laughed at this comparison 20 years ago, but now I know it’s true.
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