Are Republicans Really This Stupid ?

I knew there was a segment of the Republican Party that really wasn't too bright. All you have to do is look at the teabaggers to know that. But I have to admit that I'm shocked to see that the stupidity extends to more than half of the party.

Public Policy Polling has revealed that in it's poll 52% of GOP voters think the urban community-activist organization ACORN stole the 2008 election for Barack Obama. How could they possibly believe that? ACORN doesn't have enough members to affect even one-half of one percent of a national election.

Obviously, these Republicans have been listening to too much Limbaugh, Beck and O'Reilly, who have gone out of their way to demonize a community organization that does a lot of good work in large urban areas -- like helping people file their taxes, register to vote and find employment.

I seriously doubt that ACORN has enough members and volunteers to even steal an election in a large urban area, where most of their members and volunteers are. I would especially like to know how acorn pulled off this great theft in states where they have little or no presence, but where Obama won. Take North Carolina for example. That state went for Obama, but has only 8 ACORN members in the whole state. Please tell me how those 8 members pulled that off.

But it goes further than just Fox News and the far-right media. The mainstream media has done a very poor job of covering the mostly false ACORN accusations, and have left many people unfamiliar with ACORN with a false view of the organization. These media, who are supposed to dig out the truth, are guilty of presenting only one side of the ACORN story to their great shame.

Peter Dreier and Christopher Martin of Occidental College (in California) have released a survey regarding this poor media coverage. They found that most stories about ACORN's involvement in voter fraud was lacking in that:

• 82.8% of the stories failed to mention that actual voter fraud is very rare;
  
• 80.3% of the stories failed to mention that ACORN was reporting registration irregularities to authorities, as required by law;
• 85.1% of the stories about ACORN failed to note that ACORN was acting to stop incidents of registration problems by its (mostly temporary) employees when it became aware of these problems;
• 95.8% of the stories failed to provide deeper context, especially efforts by Republican Party officials to use allegations of "voter fraud" to dampen voting by low‐income and minority Americans, including the firing of U.S. Attorneys who refused to cooperate with the politicization of voter-fraud accusations—firings that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

If you want to see an election that was stolen, look back to 2000 when a candidate with a minority of the vote was handed the election by a right-leaning Supreme Court. In 2008, Barack Obama won the election fair and square with a huge majority of the vote -- both the popular vote and the electoral college.

Anyone who can't see that is either stupid or in complete denial. It's pathetic that this includes a majority of Republicans.