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Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It!
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com — Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to... blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat. (more) PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn
Breitbart to AG Holder: Investigate ACORN or We’ll Release More Tapes Just Before 2010 Election
biggovernment.com — Earlier tonight Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles discussed the final chapter of the ACORN L.A.... saga on “Hannity,” but more interestingly, Breitbart disclosed where the story goes from here. Transcript (below) starts ... (more) Breitbart to AG Holder: Investigate ACORN or We’ll ...
Hoffman: ACORN, unions, Dems tampered with NY-23 election
watertowndailytimes.com — With his prospect of winning the 23rd Congressional District race now almost zero, Conservative Party candidate Douglas... L. Hoffman suggested Wednesday in a letter that “ACORN, the unions and the Democratic Party” “tampered” with results to deny him ... (more) Hoffman: ACORN, unions, Dems tampered with NY-23 election
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No Joke
Talking Points Memo — A majority of Republicans think ACORN stole the election for Barack Obama, according to a new poll. ...

Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%. Among Republicans, however, only 27% say Obama actually won the race, with 52% -- an outright majority -- saying that ACORN stole it, and 21% are undecided. Among McCain voters, the breakdown is 31%-49%-20%. By comparison, independents weigh in at 72%-18%-10%, and Democrats are 86%-9%-4%. Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/poll-gop-bas...

The GOP Delusion: Part II
HorsesAss.Org — ... According to a new poll, a majority of Republicans believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election, and that Barack Obama was not the legitimate winner. ...

Majority of Republicans think ACORN stole 2008 election
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — ... would probably be funny if it weren't so troubling.  I'll admit that the question may may not have been properly asked... Probably should've been a two-part question of "Do you believe Obama legitimately won the Presidential election" with a follow up of, "If no, do you think ACORN stole the election for Obama."  I have a feeling that just the sound of ACORN gets R's brains to shut off and go into tea-bagging mode. Link.

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don't Think Obama Won 2008 Election
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... TPM's Eric Kleefeld points out that, given the 53% to 46% divide between Obama and Sen. John McCain in the 2008 race, "in order to believe that Obama wasn't the true winner of the 2008 election, one would have to think that ACORN (and perhaps other groups) stuffed ballots to the tune of over 9.5 million votes." ...

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don't Think Obama Won 2008 Election
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... TPM's Eric Kleefeld points out that, given the 53% to 46% divide between Obama and Sen. John McCain in the 2008 race, "in order to believe that Obama wasn't the true winner of the 2008 election, one would have to think that ACORN (and perhaps other groups) stuffed ballots to the tune of over 9.5 million votes." ...

Republicans Don’t Believe Obama Won the Election
Matthew Yglesias — ... Huh. I’ve been inclined to say that some of the behavior of the tea party crowd suggests people don’t think Barack Obama is the legitimate president. Apparently it seems that way because it’s true! ...

ACORN? Really?
Comments from Left Field — ... Ok, I know I have been out of the loop for a while here but how did this one completely miss my radar? 52% of Republicans think ACORN stole the election for Barack Obama? That is either some serious mass delusion or highly effective propaganda. ...

SSP Daily Digest: 11/19
Swing State Project — ... "ACORN, the unions, and the Democratic Party" "tampered" with the election results, and that he was "forced to concede" on election night. Hoffman presents no evidence, the Republican elections commissioner of Jefferson County says that's "absolutely false," and the Owsego County Republican party chair says that's "not accurate," but why should that stop Hoffman? It's actually a good argument to make, considering that it came out today that more than half of all Republicans polled by PPP think that ACORN stole the presidential election for Barack Obama (by stuffing the ...

Most Republicans think ACORN stole the 2008 election
Daily Kos — If you ever doubted Fox's political power, look no further than these new poll results from PPP: The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%. Among Republicans, however, only 27% say Obama actually won the race, with 52% -- an outright majority -- saying that ACORN stole it, and 21% are undecided. These sorts of numbers would not ...

The 26 Percent Solution
Attytood — [image] Today's magic number must be 26 -- as in 26 percent. Because as if you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America -- that would be one out of every four people you see walking down the street, plus someone else's right ankle -- is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out this new poll just out : The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26% . ...

Top Ten Cloves: Other Things Majority of Republicans Believe ACORN Orchestrated
The GarlicNews Item: Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It! ...

Will Bunch: The 26 Percent Solution
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Because as if you ever needed proof that 26 percent of America -- that would be one out of every four people you see walking down the street, plus someone else's right ankle -- is totally bat-guano out-of-their-freakin'-minds crazy, check out this new poll just out: ...

Return of the Election Beast from NY-23
The Moderate Voice — ... was inevitable. It’s become a mainstay of American politics for the losers to question the validity of any close elections. This is a way to undermine the legitimacy of the winner in the eyes of the public and we’ve been seeing it more and more since 2000. Even the election of Barack Obama, who finally won one of the fist fairly clear victories with an electoral majority since before Bill Clinton’s time, is now being claimed to have been stolen by ACORN and others by more than half of registered Republicans. ...

BEHOLD THE POWER OF ACORN. KNEEL BEFORE IT.
INSTAPUTZ — 27% of Republicans think President Obama won the 2008 Election. 52% think "ACORN stole it for him." 21% are "undecided." Usually these kinds of theories sprout up around elections that are, you know, remotely fucking close. ...

Sorry I haven’t written; it’s ACORN’s fault
MNpublius.com — ... It’s not just Hoffman, either. ACORN must have been involved in pretty much every election that a Republican has lost over the past few years. After all, we know that the voters love patriotic Republicans and hate communist, America-hating Democrats, so there’s only one explanation. ACORN was even responsible for stealing the 2008 election for Barack Obama: ...

Republicans Are the Stupidest People In The World
Liberal Values — ... • 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election — that is, that Obama didn’t actually win it, and isn’t legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are “not sure.” This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election. ...

Are Republicans Really This Nutty?
The Moderate Voice — ... • 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election — that is, that Obama didn’t actually win it, and isn’t legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are “not sure.” This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election. ...

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And Republicans continue to live in a world of unreality : The Republican base is with him though. PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it ...
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A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that 52% of all Republicans believe that the group ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, with another 21% saying they are not sure. Some 35% of all in the survey over the age of 65, from both parties, agree with that statement. This news traveled fact ...
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A new Public Policy Pollling survey finds that 52% of Republican voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately. Is that just delusional? Probably. But it now makes sense that Doug Hoffman is ...
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The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it. This number goes a long way towards explaining the anger of the Tea Party ...