SEEDS OF DOUBT

** From today's NY Post.
The three articles in question are:
1. SkinColor "Advantage"
2. ACORN
3. The POWER of RUMORS

1. Who knew Obama's skin color would wind up being an advantage with 3 weeks left in the campaign?
Democratic voters of ANY RACE, better not drink the Kool Aid, and start getting overconfident, or, complacent. We are going to need every single vote come Nov. 4th, believe that!!!!!

With all the other stuff going on right now, the GOP base is working itself into a frenzy, and they will be coming out in droves Nov 4th. Exercise your Constitutional right, and cast your vote Nov. 4th, REGARDLESS of what the polls are "projecting".

SKIN COLOR NETS O MORE VOTES: POLL
By CARL CAMPANILE
Posted: 4:00 amOctober 10, 2008

Barack Obama's race may help his bid for the presidency more than it will hurt, a survey released yesterday suggests.

The Gallup Poll found that 9 percent of voters said they're more likely to cast a ballot for Obama, the first black major-party nominee for president, because of his race, while only 6 percent said they're less likely.
"These data, taken at face value, show that, if anything, his race could be a net plus," said Gallup's Frank Newport.

Surveying voter attitudes on race is tricky because some white respondents may not want to admit racial bias, known as the "Bradley Effect."

It refers to Tom Bradley, the popular black Los Angeles mayor who in 1982 ran for California governor. He lost to George Deukmejian even though all pre-election polls had him comfortably ahead.

2. Apparently, ACORN employees have registered voters multiple times, but unless they are re-registering voters in multiple districts, with different information, the duplicate registrations are more of a nuisance to the election board officials who have to verify the forms, than a potential for FRAUD.

This seed of doubt was planted strategically, in order to question the validity of an Obama victory, whether the race is close, or a landslide. Besides, why would anyone directly affiliated with the Obama campaign, who truly hopes to give him an honest chance of winning, especially given the recent history of voter fraud in past elections, be stupid enough to submit multiple applications with the same penmanship?

I have no proof, but common sense tells me, this particular gaffe was committed by a saboteur,or an extremely ignorant/$greedy INDIVIDUAL. Either way, the seed of doubt has been planted, and sometimes, insinuation is more powerful/damaging than the truth

3. If my previous statement seemed like pro Obama rhetoric, just take a look at how a recent poll characterized the power of rumors. Through personal experience, or by example, we're all familiar with the devastating effects rumors can have.

Now imagine those rumors being repeated over and over again. Especially to a base that already resents the target of those rumors personally, the subjects party affiliation, and/or, readily inclined to accept baseless rhetoric from their party leaders/pundits/special interests/media/etc, as FACT, without a shred of evidence.

Be vigilant ppl!!! In these troubling times, you must continue to pay attention because they want to DISTRACT you from the real issues. I'm certain the revisionist are preparing to recreate/rewrite history, as we speak. Don't SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS
'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'
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By JEANE MacINTOSH Post Correspondent
"PAWNS IN 'FRAUD':

Freddie Johnson, yesterday in Cleveland, and Lateala Goins told of filling out voter registrations multiple times in the ACORN scandal revealed by The Post yesterday
PAWNS IN 'FRAUD': Freddie Johnson, yesterday in Cleveland, and Lateala Goins told of filling out voter registrations multiple times in the ACORN scandal revealed by The Post yesterday.
Last updated: 9:10 amOctober 10, 2008 Posted: 4:00 amOctober 10, 2008

CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, 'You are?' I say, 'Yup,' and then they say, 'Can you just sign up again?' " he said.

Johnson used the same information on all of his registration cards, and officials say they usually catch and toss out duplicate registrations. But the practice sparks fear that some multiple registrants could provide different information and vote more than once by absentee ballot.

ACORN is under investigation in Ohio and at least eight other states - including Missouri, where the FBI said it's planning to look into potential voter fraud - for over-the-top efforts to get as many names as possible on the voter rolls regardless of whether a person is registered or eligible.

It's even under investigation in Bridgeport, Conn., for allegedly registering a 7-year-old girl to vote, according to the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

Meanwhile, a federal judge yesterday ordered Ohio's Secretary of State to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents. The order was in response to a Republican lawsuit unrelated to the ACORN probe in Cuyahoga County, in which at least three people, including Johnson, have been subpoenaed.

Bribing citizens with gifts, property or anything of value is a fourth-degree felony in Ohio, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. And it's a fifth-degree felony - punishable by 12 months in jail - for a person to pay "compensation on a fee-per-registration" system when signing up someone to vote.

Johnson, who works at a cellphone kiosk in downtown Cleveland, said he was a sitting duck for the signature hunters, but was always happy to help them out in exchange for a smoke or a little scratch. He'd collected 10 to 20 cigarettes and anywhere from $10 to $15, he said.

The Cleveland voting probe, first reported by The Post yesterday, also focused on Lateala Goins, who said she put her name on multiple voter registrations. She guessed ACORN canvassers then put fake addresses on them. "You can tell them you're registered as many times as you want - they do not care," she said.

ACORN spokesman Kris Harsh said the group does not tolerate its workers paying people to sign the voter-registration cards.

ACORN's political wing has endorsed Barack Obama for president, but Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign in Ohio, said ACORN has no role in its get-out-the-vote drive.

During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors.

In Wisconsin yesterday, John McCain blasted ACORN.
"No one should be corrupting the most precious right we have, that is the right to vote," he said.

It's a right Johnson will exercise. "Yeah, I've registered enough - I might as well vote."
jeane.macintosh@nypost.com

RUMOR HAS IT FOLKS BELIEVE RUMORS
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By CHARLES HURT
Posted: 4:00 amOctober 10, 2008

Barack Obama, a Muslim who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, is the antichrist, just in time for the Apocalypse.

John McCain, senile from having been brainwashed while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, fathered a black love child.

A new poll found that many voters have heard those and other false rumors - and think a lot of their fellow Americans actually believe them.
More than a third have heard McCain was brainwashed. And 46 percent of those say it's "somewhat likely" some believe it.

Nearly 90 percent have heard that Obama's a closet Muslim, 57 percent that he doesn't recite the pledge, and 24 percent that he's the antichrist.
The Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll phoned 1,015 adults last month.

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