The ACORN Debate

ACORN has drawn fire from critics almost since day-one, but the allegations have gotten stronger and the organization finds itself defending the operation more and more frequently. Kudos to MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan for trying to some extremely combative guests in check this morning:

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Friday. Finally.

The campaign games are quickly becoming ridiculous. Watching Sarah Palin on the stump this morning, her big topic was ACORN. That's right, forget about the economy, forget about health insurance, forget about foreclosures. Let's talk about ACORN, demanding that the Obama camp turn over any communication between the campaign and ACORN.  Oh, and let's always refer to it as "voter fraud".  Wrong. At this point, no voter has been defrauded. It's "voter REGISTRATION fraud". And, amazingly, the U.S. Supreme Court just ruled AGAINST republicans in Ohio over the ACORN kerflufle.  Guess it's time to move on to some other issue, huh?

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court throws out largest GOP "voter fraud" case involving ACORN, others

 Well, isn't that interesting. The biggest Republican "voter fraud" cause, involving ACORN among others, just got thrown out by George Bush's conservative Republican US Supreme Court. And make no mistake - as one of the leading conservative publications, Human Events, pointed out yesterday, this case was all about ACORN: [...]

Maybe THIS is what we should really be concerned about:

ROLLING STONE: It's Already Stolen

Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election.  According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale. - Republican [...]

Never Mind

In case you're getting yourself all working up over the ACORN voter-registration fraud story, take a chill pill and calm down. Really.

The Acorn scandal

There's a sense of panic developing in the hardcore right. They just never believed there was a chance they could end up losing this presidential election. And particularly to Barack Obama. But as the national polling margin [...]

They're Really Getting Worried

That's what happens when your campaign isn't flying as high as the bosses would like - you start systematically dumping people from voter lists.  By the way, are you SURE you're still listed?  Might not be a bad idea to check. Not a bad idea, at all.

NYTIMES: THOUSANDS OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS ILLEGALLY REMOVED FROM VOTER ROLLS

We've been reporting on the GOP's October "Surpise" over the last few days (challanges to Democratic voter registrations in a number of states, and, perhaps more notably, their bogus PR campaign to charge that ACORN, a community organization who heroically registers millions of low-income voters who nobody else bothers to, [...]