Majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole 2008 vote

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

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.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/185766.asp

[bkkyosemite]

1. Yea and of course the GOP stole two elections that I know of.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Exactly

Whoever loses an election to a candidate who has zero credibility with a particular side, that almost always brings out the "stolen" charge.

[muntrv]

2. Stole? You mean like in 2000 and 2004?

[Raster]

6. Exactly! I wish they would explain just how it was done....

Did Acorn control the governor's office or the Secretary of State's office or any election infrastructure of any state?

Does Acorn own any interest, controlling or otherwise, of any of the companies that manufacture election hardware or software?

Did Acorn bus in operatives to shut down any legitimate voting recount, or interfere with any election anywhere?

Does Acorn have any influence with the Supreme Court of the United States?

Did Acorn ask James Baker to step in to shut down legitimate recount operations in any state?

So, do tell, what exactly did Acorn do to steal the 2008 election, other than encourage poor people, especially people of color to register to vote and to exercise their legal right to participate in national elections?

Oh, wait. That must be it. Poor people, people of color and other "undesirables" weren't supposed to be able to participate in legal elections.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. You mean they've given up the birth certificate (non)issue?

Will wonders never cease.........

[Island Blue]

5. The majority of GOP voters think the world is flat

and that Sarah Palin for president is a good idea.

[Imajika]

7. Hate to say it, but..

..that isn't much different than a lot of people on the left whom believed in grand voting machine conspiracies as an explanation of how the Republicans won previous elections.

People don't want to accept that a majority of their peers don't agree with their world view.

In 2002 and 2004 is was electronic voting machines that caused the GOP to win. In 2006 and 2008, the Democrats win big and suddenly the voting machine conspiracies fade away and now it's the righties that are convinced the elections were stolen.

Not saying there isn't some election fraud going on (on both sides I might add), just saying most of the grand conspiracies about such things are really just people refusing to accept that the public doesn't agree with them.

I've been around here long enough to remember Bev Harris and all her nonsensical voting machine conspiracies which she was always "just about to blow open". An awful lot of people ate that stuff up until it became pretty clear she was a fraud.

A majority of GOP voters simply can't accept that a majority of the US public rejects their politics and worldview. They can't stomach the very idea that they are indeed the minority opinion, so they grasp at ACORN conspiracies. Simple as that.

[Kansas Wyatt]

10. The margin became too great for the Republicans switch.

If the truth were told, President Obama probably won by an even larger margin and the Democratic candidates picked up more votes than the "official" count claimed. I would even go so far as to say that the Democratic Party should have ended up with more seats in Congress, than the "official" count gave them.

When even the Republicans were predicting a blowout in the election, then it becomes a lot harder for the "official" count to say the Republican candidate won, without it being very obvious.

[Imajika]

13. Err, it was a blowout...

but it also came complete with some very narrow wins for Democrats in bright red districts. Democrats won seats that even the pundits didn't think they could win - in 06' and 08'.

Do I agree that election fraud happens? Yes, it does, and both party's pull their share of tricks to game the system.

Do I believe we lost in 02' and 04' due to hacked voting machines? No. Do I think we would have won by an even bigger margin in 06' and 08'? No.

Are Republicans delusional to believe ACORN "stole" the election? Yes, ofcourse, they are out of their minds stupid to believe that.

Do I believe the Supreme Court handed Jr. the election in 2000? Yes, but that is a totally separate issue. It is actually the event that motivated me to join DU. I remain bitter about 2000 to this day (and no, I won't ever get over it), but it doesn't make me believe in electronic voting machine conspiracies to explain away other losses. It only serves to remind me that in a very close election that goes to court, we'd better hope we have more judges on our side.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Lying needs to be punished

That is all.

[Kansas Wyatt]

9. It is their confession that 2000 & 2004 was stolen.

They KNOW the vote can be stolen, therefore it is their last grasp at why so many Americans voted for the Democrats.

They cannot comprehend that the majority of America is against everything they stand for and they know that the 2000 & 2004 Elections were stolen, so they are trying to justify why the Democratic Party won so big in the election.

They are really going to lash out, once they finally realize that the majority of America thinks they are Batshit Loony.

[LynnTheDem]

11. A "majorityof the republican base". So a majority of 18% of Americans?

Ummm...who gives a flyin'?

[greennina]

12. Shows that ACORN needs more money!

so next go round they'll be even more effective.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Yeah, and it's the same people who think

the Flintstones was a documentary.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Of course it wasn't

But that Barney Rubble's a great actor.