Posted on 10/14/2008 6:23:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TOLEDO, Ohio (AFP) – Barack Obama's White House campaign charged Tuesday that desperate Republicans were waging a nationwide campaign orchestrated with John McCain's staff to intimidate voters and depress turnout.
Top aides to the Democrat battled back against what they called a Republican "smokescreen" over a liberal advocacy group called ACORN, which is under investigation in several states over allegations of voter registration fraud.
The group released a video, set to the song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," showing McCain warmly greeting its activists at a February 2006 event in support of immigration reform.
Obama said his own ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now went no further than legal work he did with the Justice Department for ACORN against the state of Illinois in the mid-1990s.
"As an elected official I've had interactions with them," the Illinois senator told reporters in Ohio.
"But they're not advising the campaign. We've got the best voter registration turnout and volunteer operation in politics right now, and we don't need ACORN's help," he said.
The McCain campaign is airing a 90-second ad alleging close and enduring ties between Obama and ACORN, which it said had bullied banks into extending the kinds of subprime mortgage loans at the heart of the US financial crisis.
The group boasts of gathering the names of 1.3 million mostly non-white, low-income voters in 21 states in the most successful voter registration drive in US history.
But many of the names are said by conservatives to be duplicated, or of famous sports stars, or of cartoon and movie characters.
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well - they ARE creating jobs “in America” - and dangit!
They’re giving felons a second go at a new career.
I’m sure there’s lots of tax breaks in there.
Hey: It’s not his fault that his supporters are fictional, dead, illegal, insane, bribed or voting more than twice.
Should he really be penalized for it?
Besides Obama is black. In the spirit of Affirmative Action, shouldn’t he get a 500k vote head start?
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