The big explanation most left-leaning reporters (is there another kind?) offer by way of dismissing our fears about ACORN's attempts to commit fraud in this general election usually goes as follows. "This is just ACORN workers, who get paid by the name, boosting their numbers to increase their salary... so really it's ACORN that's being defrauded in the end... move along, nothing to see here."
But they never ask the follow-up question. Surely a big organization like ACORN must know, on some level, that they are being exposed to this kind of fraud. Given that this must be true, why does the problem continue to be so widespread in that organization? Could there be some nefarious purpose behind what ACORN seems to be allowing to happen?
An enterprising, unbiased reporter might ask that question, but unfortunately those kinds of reporters seem to be in short supply these days, so I'll offer two possible answers... and if there's a journalist out there actually interested in doing his or her job... well you can thank me later.
1) ACORN knows all about these fake registrations. The reason they don't care, indeed the reason why they encourage them, is so that they can round up people on election day who have not yet registered, and drag them to the polls with fake documentation to vote as one of those fake people they've been registering all this time.
Or... perhaps even more simply, and less nefarious...
2) ACORN knows that polling services like GALLUP and RASSMUSSEN skew their polling samples according to things like voter registration stats. So if Democrat registrations are outnumbering Republicans by 2 to 1, then the polling services will weight their samples 2 to 1 in favor of Democrat respondents... which of course provides us with the predictable result that Obama is killing McCain in the polls.
I think this could all be part of the plan to convince potential voters that Obama is running away with this, and that if they're planning to vote for McCain, they might as well just stay home.
But then what the hell do I know?
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Can I add that fraud is still fraud, whether it be perpetrated by Republicans or Democrats? That is where the media is missing the point. If the media were truly interested in fraud free elections, they would be investigating the hell out of this. I guess there are no more Woodwards and Bernsteins left in the world.
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