VOTER FRAUD

ACORN needs investigating

Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote -- of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director -- here in Chicago."

ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states -- including Ohio, from where the Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud. Two voters told MacIntosh they had been dragooned by ACORN activists into registering several times -- one reporting having signed up "10 to 15" times. ...

John McCain's campaign says all this "doesn't pass the smell test."

Actually, it stinks.

And it's being done by a group with which Barack Obama has proudly been associated.

What, then, would they be able to pull off with a friend in the White House?

NEW YORK POST, OCT. 9

presidential debate

McCain's other opponent

How did the presidential candidates do last night?

We can fairly report that Republican candidate John McCain was energetic, informed and prepared to knock his opponent's positions on key issues such as tax policy and health-care reform.

We also can fairly report that Democrat Barack Obama did pretty much the same. He was composed, informed and eager to strike back at McCain's occasional attacks. Well, more than occasional attacks, actually.

So, all things being even, we might report Tuesday night's presidential debate as yet another draw. We might be tempted to say that the debate amounted to yet another 90 minutes in which both candidates gave a fair account of themselves.

But that wasn't how it was. McCain had more than one opponent on the floor at Belmont University in Nashville. ...

McCain, the Republican candidate who would replace the Republican administration presiding over a financial meltdown of historic proportions is debating two opponents now. One is a seemingly capable, in-control and outwardly calm Democrat who at this point in the race need only cast a president-like shadow. Which, last evening, he did.

The other opponent is the one whose specter rises up with each mention of "the worst financial crisis since the Depression." ...

ARIZONA REPUBLIC, OCT. 9