The Long View

McCain-Palin and the Republican apparatchick have made much of the not-for-profit Acorn community organizing group and its associated Project Vote whose paid voter registration canvassers included fraudulent registrations among the “newly registered” (were they paid by the piece like farm workers or sweatshop workers?). McCain characterized this as the most serious threat to American democracy on the landscape (paling, I guess, in comparison to Bush-Cheney usurping of the Constitution).

Now the New York Times has revealed that Acorn and Project Vote, who claimined to have registered over a million new voters actually only registered fewer than half a million.

 McCain-Palin and the RNC ought to just keep their mouths shut if they know what’s good for them. The bogus “registered voters” are not actually going to vote. The inflated numbers give pundits the impression that there are many more new voters (who are more likely to vote Democratic) than there actually are.

Obama-Biden and the Dems should worry.