Oct 14, 2008 
The other big, bleeping deal on the Right today are allegations that ACORN is perpetrating massive voter fraud all over the country to steal the election for Obama. They’ve been on to this for a while, actually, and it’s easy to see they are setting up ACORN and voter fraud as the excuses for a McCain loss, should he lose. They so love feeling victimized.
In just the last week, we’ve had a phony stunt raid in swing state Nevada (where Acorn had been cooperating with officials for months, concerning problem canvassers they’d long ago fired); a Republican election official in swing state Missouri tell Fox News that she’s being besieged with fraudulent registration forms from Acorn (in a county where they’ve not done any registration work since August); a Republican sheriff in swing state Ohio, who, the very next day, suddenly requested the names and addresses of hundreds of early voters (with evidence of exactly zero wrong doing, but lots of Democratic-leaning college student in the particular county, and John McCain’s state campaign chair as a partner in the investigation); and a screaming front page headline in Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post about a guy who claims he was somehow tricked by Acorn into registering 72 times (but read the article closely to note he says he registered at the same address each time, which, even if true, would allow him - you guessed it - precisely one legal vote.)
It’s an old Republican scam, but it’s never been carried out with more zeal than this year.
If Obama wins the election, they’ll be screaming their heads off that he’s not the “legitimate” president (which they also said about Bill Clinton, you might recall). As I said, they are getting their excuses ready.
Update: See Matt Yglesias.
