And the ratio of Democratic voters to every other voter was what again?
Link doesn’t work.
Why wouldn’t I call a socialst a socialist? Explain that to me.
The nerve of that maverick!
When a word has too many meanings, it has none. When you use “socialist”, it implies that Bertrand Russell and Pol Pot are roughly equivalent, both being “socialists”. This is like saying a hummingbird and a penguin are much the same, both being birds.
If you knew more about lefties, you’d know better. ACORN is a progressive populist branch of leftism, their defining characteristic is an unfathomable optimism and earnestness. They remind me most of hippies I knew who “cleaned up”, cut their hair, and started doing campaign work for Bobby, and then McCarthy. They believe that they can tinker with the steam engine that presses the life’s blood from the working class, tinker with it long enough and they can transform it into a solar powered rainbow extruder.
They are so well-meaning, it sets your teeth on edge, so sincere, it makes you want to drink. These people don’t hatch plots. They hatch organic, free-range chickens.
Are you illiterate?
I’ve done voter registration on behalf of the Obama’s campaign and my experience is similar gonzomax’s. In fact, most voters sealed the registration form so I couldn’t read what they wrote.
And what the hell does it matter what the ratio is? Churches do registration drives all the time knowing full well whom the congregation supports. Do you have a point, other than ACORN tries to register voters in districts that tend to vote Democratic?
This is, like, poetry, man.
So, you seem to grant that the organization is a partisan one. I say that based partially on what you wrote above and partially on my questions you ignored. I’ll ask again: “are you saying that you can think of no areas where poorer supposed Republican types might congregate, thereby making the notion of walking rural roads moot?”
Let me start things off. How about a mall in a Republican county? How about outside a NASCAR event? Or a State Fair held in a rural area? How about outside the DMV? If ACORN were truly committed to increasing voters and was non-partisan in that effort—or wanted to be non-partisan in the effort—shouldn’t they be doing things like this?
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to get some citizens registered for the first time and let some of their current targets go with being registered a mere 72 times?
So, that’s it then? After all of this bluster and high dudgeon, all you got is they’re partisan? You drag them in here charging them with all manner of skullduggery, thuggery, and malice, and now you’re reduced to charging them with not liking Republicans?
I am baffled by this thread — I must be missing something.
Can someone help me with the relevance of ACORN’s political leanings? What is the relevance of them being Obama/McCain/Kodos-oriented? (thanks for the cite re: funding) Why the back-and-forth?
I don’t understand the well, if they’re so bipartisan why aren’t they working to get Republicans registered as well sidetrack. ACORN seems to do a lot more than register voters — and since they’re largely based in cities, it follows without any nefariosity that that is where their registration efforts are going to happen, and it follows with little nefariliciousness that most people in the city favor Obama. Look at electoral maps for the past few elections, there’s nothing whoop-dee-doo in that. What am I missing?
And again, if they’re obligated by law to turn in ALL registration cards, regardless of what they think of them, and there’s no implication of an intent to follow up on those cards with fraudulent votes, what the hell is the purpose of this thread?
ETA:
elucidator forgot mopery with intent to creep.
Lurking with intent to loom.
Uh, you may want to review the thread. I’ve hardly posted in it. And I certainly did drag ACORN into a thread that another poster started with ACORN in the title.
Oh, OK! So, in that thread you mean it, but this one, yer just kidding around?
The thread was an attempt to smear and shame Democratic posters. As soon as the facts were revealed, the OP skedaddled.
He did take the time to get the offending thread title changed first.
Well, some politicians have been known to gain a certain advantage from saying they are all in favor of poor people voting, and then doing what they could to keep poor people from voting for someone else.
But unless ACORN’s shenanigans re voter fraud are bipartisan, obviously it makes a difference if they are preferentially committing fraud on behalf of one candidate over another. It’s like the fracas in Florida in 2000. Both sides claimed they wanted only a fair count, but both sides pushed for the “fair count” that they believed would wind up counting their votes and not the other side’s.
Regards,
Shodan
I know you eat dinner over the computer, jsgoddess, being careful not to let any lo mein get stuck in the keyboard, but I do not. (Or, more honestly, I didn’t this weekend). I didn’t spend a significant amount of time on the computer or the boards this weekend – I think I briefly skimmed one thread and made one post all weekend. This was not, as your keen analysis above would suggest, an effort to dodge the debate, but simply the result of a three-day weekend and time to spend with my family.
So, no - you may not smugly declare victory based on my absence. And to the extent that your comment suggests you approve of ACORN’s practices as outlined herein, I’d say yes – you do have something to be ashamed of. And I didn’t smear anything – ACORN’s own actions did.
Yes, shame on them for obeying the law.
Well, as the earlier comments have indicated, my criticism of them is not for “obeying the law.” My criticism of their employees is for (at best) creating an environment in which violations of the law would predictably be frequent, or (at worst) participating in outright fraud.
Now, when the best argument against that thesis you can offer is such a ridiculous counter, I think it’s clear what the relative strengths of our respective arguments are.
You have yet to explain how this could occur, given that ACORN noted all the suspect registrations when they were turned in to the registrar. How is this fraud?
I couldn’t agree more.