For Republicans, It's the Nut of the Problem

The RNC is holding not 1, not 2, not 3 but... wait for it... 4 different conference calls today on the ACORN voter fraud allegations. NPR's Pam Fessler says they've been holding at least one conference call a day on the issue. But with four different calls focusing on four different states (North Carolina, Minnesota, Florida, and Missouri), our media-meter registers that as a "lather."

As Loyola Law School's Rick Hasen said in Pam's story last night, the Republicans might use the issue as an "insurance policy" if election results in certain states are very close. If today's press conferences are any indication, RNC lawyers might already be looking at flights to the "Show-Me", "Sunshine", "Tar-Heel", and "North Star" states, respectively.

As NPR's Peter Overby reminded us this morning, the latest attacks on ACORN are nothing new. Conflicts over the group forced Countrywide Financial to help cash-strapped homeowners out of subprime loans and fought to stop the use of state funds to build a sports arena in Philadelphia. They even got an assist at a 2006 rally from their current critic John McCain, who joined the group to push an immigration reform bill.

-- Kyle Gassiott

1:07 PM ET | 10-15-2008 | permalink

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