Mick,
I agree. Claiming that ACORN somehow “stole the election” is sillier than the Democrats’ claims that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections.

But I would say Acorn aggressively got out the vote for the left , but besides that the right really has little to complain about except for government funding. That seems to be apparently self serving to one political party.

But considering the way the mainstream media did not see the ACORN issue as being all that important , I was surprised that so many voters were influenced negatively by Acorn that the poll suggests.
The finding of their apparent conduct of supporting prostitution and such came out way after the elections , and even after the story was broke many in the mainstream media had no clue about the story .

But blaming Acorn for President Obama is sour grapes as far as I am concerned .

P.S Steve reading the PI.COM . A recent poll stated three people still do , and none of them are republicans . ;0)

However, the press release does not indicate how the list of 1,066 registered voters was compiled or the aggregate geographic breakdown of those voters (i.e. by State, County, Congressional District, Legislative District, etc.) IMO, without this BASIC information it is impossible to make any conclusions whatsoever about the “accuracy” of this poll.

Furthermore, it seems to me that the sample size (1,066) is so small as to have no statistical significance whatsoever for a “National” survey.

ACORN found a successful way to tap into and easily influences the less informed, less intelligent, lazy minority and motivated them to vote in a variety of ways that did affect the outcome of the election. The continuing problem is that this same group of people is also easily swayed to be disapproving of what they originally agreed with and can eventually be convinced after a period of time that the exact opposite is what they really wanted in the first place.

ACORN is self destructing at a very fast rate. What or who will replace it and what their message is will continue to determine the outcome of elections.

“The Republicans do it with scare tactics based on outright falsehoods, the Democrats do it with scare tactics based on reality.”

Since you are basing this statement on a falsehood what does that really make you?

Like, “We do not have a budget deficit”?

I had voted for Huckabee, but when he didn’t get the nomination and McCain got it, I got scared of McCain’s temper and his “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”, plus his rudeness to Obama in the debates (ignoring him, calling him “that one”).

When I saw that Hillary hadn’t gotten the nomination (thank God), I then thought of Obama as a viable candidate. I am not partisan, and I vote for who I think is the lesser of two evils, I guess. No president or nominee is perfect.

I will just have to wait and see who the next nominees are and how I feel about them. I hear that in some polls most people would like Huckabee to be the next nominee. Had he been the nominee the first time, the results might have been different, and we would now have President Huckabee instead.

If there are any regrets, it is because there isn’t any change in the economy and our involvement in the Middle East, but I made up my own mind without influence from anybody which is what most moderates do. A President Huckabee might not have been able to turn things around either.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA