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ACORN and OBAMA????!!!!?

I am confused with the Republicans argumentative standpoint on relating ACORN to the Obama Campaign. From my understanding, ACORN has been paying people to register votes. Very bad idea. In an economic crisis, an easy buck can be made from filling out forms. But it is the state officials job to weed out inapplicable or false applications. The Obama campaign does NOT pay ACORN for registering voters.

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  • damon
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Shhhhhhhhhhh.... let the mccain camp keep harping on ACORN and such... the more he does...the higher the polls go for Obama...its plain to see that the Obama camp does not repudiate this because it doesnt hurt the campaign... that good old saying...if its not broke..dont fit it applies.

    Listen... the idea is novel. Pay some unemployed poor people 7-8 hour to go around and ask people in the poor communities to register to vote. As usual when you dealing with poor uneducated low wage people, you going to get a number of sneaky rule-breaking guys who are just in it to try and scheme as much money as they can from the little pay they get. So now you have a few bad apples that spoil the bunch. I own a biz and i paid several guys to pass out fliers and put them on cars in parking lots for $7/hour... most did a good job...but i did find out 1 guy had his buddy take over 100 fliers and another had thrown over 400 fliers in the dumpster at the end of his work day. But the point ACORN leaders are saying...that most of the states require that ALL registration cards be turned in... "fraudulent" and all. Now the repubs are trying to say "oh ACORN is registering people for voter fraud" when in actuality ACORN wanted to purge these cards beforehand...but were not allowed to by state law.

    This is like a produce company that is bound by state law to have to provide ALL the fruit they pick go to the grocery store. With the grocery store having to eliminate the "bad" fruit from the good...even though the produce company already pre-sorted the "bad" fruit and sent in in different crates. Soon its systematically spread around that this produce company is terrible for doing bad business when its really the policy that is bad business.

    But lets not forget McCain ties to ACORN

    as he speaks at a Miami event with ACORN members and other funded community organization groups in the audience.

    http://www.webcastr.com/videos/politics/mccain-aco...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Republican Governor Charlie Crist said there hasn't been any unusual level of faulty registration applications (there are always some), and he said that contrary to the state RNC's claim that they were overwhelmed with such applications, they really weren't. There aren't that many.

    A personal observation, these people, by law, have to turn in whatever you give them when you fill one of these out, but if you think Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck are going to show up and be allowed to vote, then you are Goofy.

    It's just more craziness from the RNC and McCain campaign.

    2008, the year we got Sam "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher claiming he was buying a business making 250-280K when he can't even afford to pay taxes on his 120K home and calling the progressive tax system socialism, the year the Republican VP was Caribou Barbie with an assault rifle for moose hunting, etc, etc.

    What a bunch of whack jobs.

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    Crist breaks with Republicans over ACORN voter fraud charges

    BY MARC CAPUTO

    mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com

    TALLAHASSEE -- Breaking with the talking points of his fellow Republicans in Washington, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he does not think voter fraud and the vote-registration group ACORN are a major problem in the Sunshine State.

    ...

    Crist's Republican Secretary of State, Kurt Browning, said he doesn't think ACORN is committing systematic voter fraud. And Crist said that settles the matter because ''I have enormous confidence'' in Browning.

  • 1 decade ago

    there are many ties between obama and acorn,acorn was the reciprient of large amounts of money from the Joyce Foundation and the Woods fund. obama sat on both boards .obama made sure they got plenty! all the facts are available for people to investigate and decide for themselves they should do so ,and Look up Tony Rezko too.

  • 1 decade ago

    I believe it is because Senator Obama did hands on training for Acorn and was also some sort of legal counsel for them

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  • 1 decade ago

    "Both sides in the presidential race have accused the other of ties to ACORN."

    read this article:

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008...

    ... republicans are throwing ANYTHING out there that they can find right about now ...

  • 1 decade ago

    Hasn't ACORN funded Obama's campaign in the past.....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No he does not...it's just another one of McCains sad attempts to blame Obama for breathing...

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