Re: Why Obama will sit in the White House; A look at Voter Fraud:

" 'We feel the current strategy from the right is to create and
manufacture a so-called crisis of voter fraud,' said Brian Kettenring,
chief organizer for ACORN in Florida."


"McCain Moves to Soften the Tone at Rallies, if Not in Ads"

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 11, 2008; A04


LAKEVILLE, Minn., Oct. 10 -- At the end of perhaps the most charged
and negative week of the presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain
sought to tone down his rhetoric toward Sen. Barack Obama even as his
running mate, allies and his own advertising continued to attack the
character of the Democratic nominee.

On Friday, McCain urged a crowd of skeptical supporters at a town hall
forum in this Minneapolis suburb to be respectful of his rival for the
presidency despite their deep policy differences with Obama.

The Republican nominee drew a cascade of boos from the crowd when he
called Obama "a decent person" and told an expectant father that he
does not have to be scared if he is president of the United States.

"We want to fight and I want to fight, but we will be respectful,"
McCain said, again prompting loud boos when he declared that he
admires Obama's accomplishments. "I want everyone to be respectful,
and let's be sure we are. . . . That doesn't mean you have to reduce
your ferocity. It's just got to be respectful."

At one point in the event, McCain grabbed back the microphone from an
elderly woman who had begun to say that she didn't like Obama because
he is an Arab. "No, ma'am. No, ma'am," McCain said. "He's a decent
family man, a citizen who I just happen to have serious differences
with on fundamental questions."

His comments came a day after an angry crowd at a Wisconsin rally
shouted epithets about the Democratic nominee, pumped their fists
angrily in the air and catcalled repeatedly when Obama's name was
mentioned. Several called him a "socialist," and many flipped their
middle finger as a press bus drove by.

McCain appeared determined to respond Friday, saying that he respects
Obama and only quieting the boos by saying that "if I didn't think I
would be one heck of a better president, I wouldn't be running."

But throughout the day, McCain's allies and advertising unleashed a
flurry of attacks on his rival's ethics, touting Obama's ties to a
Vietnam War-era radical and accusing him of being connected to a group
accused of engaging in voter fraud.

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