John McCain's Voter Fraud »

John McCain is the one committing voter fraud here. The manufactured flapdoodle over ACORN is a disgraceful political attack on a grass-roots group of citizens doing what democracy requires: getting people involved.

ACORN is the feisty and effective grass-roots organization that is of, by and for low-income Americans. Its community organizers (grit your teeth and say "doggone it," Sarah Palin) have had remarkable success over the past three decades in helping low-wage working folks gain a real say in how their families and communities are treated by politicians, bankers, developers and other elites.

In the past few election cycles, the group's members also have become a formidable force in national politics. How? By going door to door in their neighborhoods encouraging people to get involved in the democratic process. They register them to vote, inform them on issues and candidates, and urge them to turn out on Election Day. ACORN happens to be very good at this exercise in old-fashioned, grunt-level democracy; this year, the group has added 1.3 million new voters to the rolls.

This success is what has prompted all of the howling from the McCainites, for most of those new voters are not John's sort of people. They tend to be janitors, hairdressers, taxi drivers, laborers, fast-food workers, hospital orderlies and such — people who usually are unorganized, unheard and unsolicited by the political system. But suddenly, there they are — signed up to vote and generally disinclined to support McCain's lobbyist-directed policies of more tax cuts for the rich, war for the poor, health care for the few, subsidies for Big Oil, and no-strings-attached bailouts for Wall Street.

So, unwilling to compete for the votes of these families, McCain has surged down the road of slime politics by trying to demonize the group itself. Puffing himself up with red-faced, phony outrage, the GOP nominee is trying to convince the rest of us that this can-do organization of low- and moderate-income Americans is a danger to the republic!

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