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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.
Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It!
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — 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. (more) Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't ...
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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Half of GOP think ACORN stole the election?
doubleplusundead — ... : A new Public Policy Polling 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 ...

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It!
TPM Election Central — ... 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. ...

Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — Source: Talking Points Memo http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/11/acorn.h... Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It! Eric Kleefeld | November 19, 2009, 12:28PM 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 crowd. They not only think Obama's agenda is against America, but they ...

Most Republicans Think Obama Stole Election
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — 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. ...

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don't Think Obama Won 2008 Election
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... When Doug Hoffman blamed ACORN for his loss in the NY-23 special House election, he was channeling the GOP base. A new Public Policy Polling survey found that a majority of Republican voters think that ACORN stole the presidential election for Barack Obama last year. ...

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don't Think Obama Won 2008 Election
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... When Doug Hoffman blamed ACORN for his loss in the NY-23 special House election, he was channeling the GOP base. A new Public Policy Polling survey found that a majority of Republican voters think that ACORN stole the presidential election for Barack Obama last year. ...

GOPers' Delusion: ACORN Stole Election for Obama
MyDD — 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 legitimately. Clearly the ACORN card really is an effective one to play with the voters who will decide whether Hoffman gets to be the Republican nominee in a possible repeat bid in 2010. Belief in the ACORN conspiracy theory is even higher among GOP partisans ...

Doug Hoffman: Sore Loser, Man
Oliver Willis — Conservatives once again blame poor minorities at ACORN for their latest electoral loss. 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. Pretty soon they’ll tell us ACORN was on the grassy knoll. ...

Obama's legitimacy
Ben Smith's BlogWidely doubted among Republicans, according to a PPP survey: 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 legitimately. Clearly the ACORN card really is an effective one to play with the voters who will decide whether Hoffman gets to be the Republican nominee in a possible repeat bid in 2010.

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don’t Believe Obama Won 2008 Election Legitimately
Below The Beltway — According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Obama won the 2008 Election legitimately: 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 legitimately Of course, what evidence there might be in favor of this majority “belief” is left unstated. ...

GOP Fearmongering Succeeds in Casting Doubt on Legitimacy of the Electoral Process
Firedoglake — ... The Republican Party has engaged in a decades-long project to portray any Democratic electoral gains as fraudulent, chipping away at the legitimacy of any Democratic politician. A new poll by a Democratic firm shows that these efforts have paid off. Public Policy Polling finds that a majority of Republicans believe that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama. ...

PPP Poll: Majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole election for Obama
News — ... A close look at the cross tabs in Public Policy Polling's (PPP) latest measure reveals 52 percent of GOP voters believe ACORN -- which has long battled back concerns about voting fraud -- stole votes, and thus the presidential election, for Obama. ...

52% Of Republicans Believe ACORN Stole The Election For Obama
Pat Dollard | Young AmericansPublic Policy Polling: 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. 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 legitimately. Clearly the ACORN card really is ...

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 be ...

Hoffman: 'ACORN Stole NY-23'; GOP Majority 'ACORN Stole the 2008 Presidential Election'!
The BRAD BLOG — ... ! Not a surprise, given that a new public opinion poll finds that a majority of Republicans think ACORN stole the Presidential election, too! [ ...

Majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole 2008 vote
Strange Bedfellows — In more evidence that the Republican base is adopting a bunker mentality, a new national poll finds that a majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole the 2008 presidential election for Barack Obama. The new poll by Public Policy Polling finds that 52 percent of Republican voters think that ACORN "stole" the election, with only 27 percent granting that Obama won it legitimately. ACORN is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The organization, which promotes the political power of low- and moderate-income families, has endured scandals in its voter ...

Poll: 52% of Republicans Think ACORN Stole Election For Obama
The Moderate Voice — Before you read this story, play this video below to set the proper mood: Click here to view the embedded video. Now read this poll: 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. 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 ...

Who You Calling Illegitimate?
The New Republic blogs — I was pretty shocked by this new poll that found that 52 percent of Republican voters think ACORN stole the 2008 presidential election for Obama. I wanted to get some perspective, though, so I looked for polls that assessed voters' feelings about the 2000 elections. I figured that, even with hanging chads and all, fewer Democratic voters would have considered Bush illegitimate back then than those Republicans who now feel that way about Obama. So I was pretty shocked to find ...

Breitbart to Eric Holder: Investigate ACORN or we’ll release more tapes — before the election
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... that “Not only are there more tapes, it’s not just ACORN.” Whatever can that mean? Did they pull this scam on other lefty outfits? Or does he mean that other lefties, perhaps politicians, were implicated in their dealings with ACORN? Or … is it all a bluff? I say: Bluff. (But a crafty one!) Speaking of ACORN and elections, this fantastically depressing poll can’t be accurate. Can it? 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 ...

Sorry I haven’t written; it’s ACORN’s fault
MNpublius.com — ... 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. ...

NY-23 and the E-Voting 'Virus'
The BRAD BLOG — ... that the community organization ACORN may have been involved in "stealing" the election. Such baseless, knee-jerk assertions may play well among the rightwing base, a majority of which, according to a recent Democratic poll, actually believe ACORN stole last year's Presidential Election for Barack Obama. But such claims are ...

Behind the House GOP's ACORNaganza
The New Republic blogs — ... gambled everything on an illegal effort to secure bailouts and a general "socialist" takeover of the country by stealing the White House for its long-time associate and radical community organizer, Barack Obama. The extraordinary strength of this crazy theory, which has the particular advantage of absolving the Bush administration and Wall Street of responsibility for the financial crisis and the current recession, was astonishingly demonstrated by a recent poll showing that an actual majority of self-identified Republican voters believe that ACORN stole the 2008 elections. ...

Condescension = Not Swallowing your Bulls**t
Firedoglake — ... of any prominent conservative referring to liberals as “un-American”. And finally the last third involved using ad hominem analogies like ‘liberals believe’ “AIDS was developed in a U.S. military lab and used deliberately to infect people” to deflect from actual statistics showing huge swaths of conservatives believe in literal creationism; deny global warming; think Obama wasn’t born in American; and that ACORN is full of people with Hitler mustaches wearing Mao hats. Seriously, read it, it ...

Condescension = Not Swallowing your Bulls**t
Rising Hegemon — ... Another third is a proclamation he is unaware of any prominent conservative referring to liberals as "un-American". And finally the last third involved using ad hominem analogies like 'liberals believe' "AIDS was developed in a U.S. military lab and used deliberately to infect people" to deflect from actual statistics showing huge swaths of conservatives believe in literal creationism; deny global warming; think Obama wasn't born in American; and that ACORN is full of people with Hitler mustaches wearing Mao hats. Seriously, read it ...

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