the real danger of the Acorn smears:

[amborin]

<snip>

"First, the ACORN myth allows the Republicans to do more purging of the voter rolls--the process of removing people from the voter rolls because of arbitrary anomalies in the voter registration databases.

Richard L Hasen, author of the Election Law Blog and a distinguished law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles recently wrote, "Careless purging--driven by unsubstantiated fears about voter fraud--can lead to many eligible voters being incorrectly removed from the polls." Already in Ohio the Republican Party is pushing for more purging and they found a federal judge who agreed citing ACORN's activities.

Second, in the event that campaigning, purging and intimidating voters doesn't work, the Right is creating a myth like they did in 1960.

They are creating the myth of a stolen election. Conservatives plan to claim that ACORN and Barack Obama stole the election. Their hope is to steal the legitimacy of what is looking like a massive repudiation of Bush, conservatives and the Republican Party. The Right plans to steal the election by trying to steal the legitimate defeat of them by progressive forces."

much more:

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-matzzie/how-mccain-will-steal-the_b_133989.html>

[Sinistrous]

1. "Delegitimization" is one of the keystones of rethuglican strategy.

Hence the AyersTerroristMuslimBirthCertificate bulldokey they have been spewing for the last year.

[EC]

2. Yes, the meme that the Chicago machine

was the only reason Kennedy won...it's treated as fact now...yet I've never seen a dead person at the polls...

[amborin]

3. imo, palin is pure evil

that's the only adjective that comes to mind right now

the rethugs willl try to use Acorn to attempt to delegitimze a big dem win

hey, dems: let's make sure we win in an overwhelming landslide, by HUGE margin!!!!!!!!!!