1.0 link 134591 <![CDATA[Plouffe Fights ACORN Smears: It's A Smokescreen]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/plouffe-fights-back-at-ac_n_134591.html After days of withering attacks against ACORN and implications that the Obama campaign was using the community organizing group to perpetuate voter fraud, aides to the Illinois Democrat fought back on Tuesday.

In a conference call with reporters, campaign manager David Plouffe called the charge that ACORN was illegally registering voters (and that Obama had nefarious ties to the organization) a cynical "smokescreen" and an attempt to discourage people from going to the polls.

"This is just the start of what is...

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