When conservatives spend a quarter of a century with the likes of Frank Luntz, and the right-wing entertainment networks, demonizing government as illegitimate except when they are in power to not make it smaller or dismantle any of it; and to demonize all opponents as illegitimate, especially when they win and especially when they are half-black, this item from Think Progress makes perfect sense:
Forty nine percent of Republicans
believe that President Obama won reelection thanks to the allegedly
illegal work of a group that no longer exists, according to a Public
Policy Polling survey.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was
at the center of anti-Obama energy in 2008, when Republicans cited some
faulty registration forms obtained by ACORN as proof of voter fraud.
The charge was particularly potent, since Obama hired one of the
organizations associated with ACORN to run voter turnout for him in the
primary.
But in 2010, ACORN filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, putting an end to the
community organizing effort altogether. Still, the fact that ACORN no
longer exists hasn’t stopped the group from serving its role as
scapegoat. Fifty two percent of Republicans blamed ACORN for Obama’s win
in 2008, saying that they “stole” the election for him. That number
only dropped by 3 percent, and 49 percent blame ACORN this time around.
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