This group called ACORN is in the news a lot today. Here in Missouri, McCain is showing a slight lead in the polls. This is from Yahoo News.
Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.
“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”
Years ago, I remember hearing that there was a group in Springfield that was picking up drunks off of the street and taking them to register. I saw a van stop to pick up some guys that were huddled under an overpass. A couple of hours later, I saw the same guys waiting for the bus outside of the Cat and Fiddle Lounge which was a notorious, happy hour at 10:00 A.M., sort of bar. The guys all looked pretty happy.
According to a BBC poll, the rest of the world would prefer that Americans elect Obama.
All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to see Senator Obama elected US president ahead of Republican John McCain.
In 17 of the 22 nations, people expect relations between the US and the rest of the world to improve if Senator Obama wins.
More than 22,000 people were questioned by pollster GlobeScan in countries ranging from Australia to India and across Africa, Europe and South America.
The margin in favour of Senator Obama ranged from 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, while an average of 49 per cent across the 22 countries preferred Senator Obama compared with 12 per cent preferring Senator McCain. Some four in 10 did not take a view.
Meanwhile back in the States, current data shows McCain now ahead in most polls. Two are a dead heat.
Gallup Tracking……….09/06-09/08…..49-44…..McCain +5
Rasmussen Tracking….09/06-09/08….48-48…..Tie
Hotline/FD Tracking…..09/06-09/08….45-44…..McCain +1
ABC News/Wash Post…09/05-09/07…49-47…..McCain +2
USA Today/Gallup …….09/05-09/07….54-44…..McCain +10
CBS News………………09/05-09/07….46-44…..McCain +2
CNN/OpinionResearch…09/05-09/07….48-48…..Tie
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