Poll: Majority of Republicans Believe ACORN Stole the Presidential Election

[struggle4progress]

... Public Policy Polling released this shocking nugget on its blog: "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." Say what? More than half of Republican respondents believe the president was elected fraudulently! That's a stunningly high number. It's disturbing, not only as a demonstrable lack of faith in America's democracy but as an expression of wanton ignorance. Worse, it illustrates the effectiveness of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, et al., alongside a well-funded "Stop ACORN" campaign, in creating an atmosphere where unquestioned lies become received wisdom.

Barack Obama won the election by an easy margin. In the end, it wasn't even close. John McCain knew that and delivered his concession speech before 9:30 p.m. Obama didn't just win in the urban areas where ACORN could actually be seen as a force—and which would likely have voted for him regardless of ACORN's participation. He won in places like North Carolina, where ACORN had just eight staffers. There's been no formal challenge to the electoral validity of the votes.There's simply no proof to back up claims that ACORN tampered with ballots. But there is evidence of irresponsible reporting catalyzing misguided fears ...

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/19/poll-majority-of-republicans-believe-acorn-stole-the-presidential-election.aspx

Download the pdf file for the poll. Look at Q9: only 33% of the public considers itself Republican. Then look at the cross-tab results: 26% of the public thinks ACORN stole the election; 48% of conservatives, 49% of McCain voters, and 52% of Republicans think so; among ethnic groups, whites are most likely to hold this view (29%); among age groups, the over 65 crowd is most like to hold this view (35%). The view is least common among Obama voters (5%), liberals (11%), Democrats (9%), African-Americans (12%), people aged 30 - 45 (20%), and in the West (19%)

[Cha]

1. Oh, they believe Americans are that stupid after 8 years

of bushcheney to elect more idiots like mcpalin?

[Beartracks]

2. "irresponsible reporting catalyzing misguided fears" - What, in the USA??

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

3. GOP is The Black Helicopter Party. n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. The media disinformationists have transformed ACORN into SMERSH or THRUSH

Next we'll be finding out that ACORN has weather controlling satellites designed to make it rain in Republican precincts.

[corpseratemedia]

5. oh you just let out the secret!

now they KNOW:crazy:

[Ozymanithrax]

6. Of course, they do. They have to justify the failure of their ideology...

It was a communist plot, not a epic fail of Conservative/Republican Ideology that caused their loss.

[demosincebirth]

7. Now we're even!!

[Politicalboi]

8. More lies

They wish he stole it. They blew it, and can't handle the fact.

[kristopher]

9. US stats on functional illiteracy

In the US,
14% of the adult population is at the "below basic" level for prose literacy;
12% are at the "below basic" level for document literacy;
and 22% are at that level for quantitative literacy.

Only 13% of the population is proficient in these three areas—able to compare viewpoints in two editorials; interpret a table about blood pressure, age, and physical activity; or compute and compare the cost per ounce of food items.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy