Obama Acorn

"ACORN Facts" Craze Set Off By Poll That Found Most Republicans Think Obama Stole Election

Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds. that 52% of all Republicans believe that the group ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama. Here's what people are saying about ACORN on Twitter.

Poll: Majority Of Republicans Don't Think Obama Won 2008 Election

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


When Doug Hoffman blamed ACORN for his loss in the NY-23 special House election, he was apparently channeling the GOP base. A new Public Policy Pollin...

Obama Endorses ACORN Investigation, Says He's Not Following Issue Closely

AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group...

ACORN Launches Home Defenders Campaign To Fight Foreclosures

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics


Yesterday marked the launch of ACORN's Home Defenders Campaign, which seeks to use civil disobedience techniques, complemented by mass communication (...

Seth Colter Walls

McCain Camp Pushes New ACORN Outrage

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


McCain campaign manager Rick Davis held a conference call on Thursday to dish out some more press criticism and fan the flames of a new alleged ACORN-...

Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

While Republicans had the media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history.

The ACORN Hysteria

Rick Hasen | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

Fraudulent voter registrations don't translate into election fraud at the polls that has any reasonable chance of influencing an election, much less a presidential election.

Seth Colter Walls

FBI: McCain Camp ACORN Statement "Too Political For Us To Be Involved"

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics


Late Thursday afternoon, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sent out a statement seeking to piggy-back on the news that the FBI has opened a nationwid...

GOP Warns Of ACORN Problems In Illinois

Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago


It appears that the GOP believe so strongly in their false claims that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is out to com...

Sam Stein

Plouffe Fights ACORN Smears: It's A Smokescreen

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics


After days of withering attacks against ACORN and implications that the Obama campaign was using the community organizing group to perpetuate voter fr...

Seth Colter Walls

McCain Camp Accuses ACORN Of Stealing Election For Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


With a fundraising email sent out under Sarah Palin's name Monday, the McCain campaign is now directly alleging that community organizer ACORN's recen...

Sam Stein

Obama Aides: Record Cash Raised In September, Polls Show McCain Ads Backfired

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics


With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position. One official close to the campaign...