Obama's lead slips to 3 points...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race has dropped to 3 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.

Obama leads McCain by 48 to 45 percent among likely U.S. voters, down 1 percentage point from Saturday. The four-day tracking poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 points.
Pollster John Zogby said the numbers were good news for McCain, and probably reflected a bump following his appearance in the third and final presidential debate on Wednesday.

'For the first time in the polling McCain is up above 45 percent. There is no question something has happened,' Zogby said..."

Something has happened. Many Americans have awakened to the fact that Senator Obama's policies are socialist. And they are, to put it mildly, alarmed. As Sol Stern has explained, ACORN (the radical socialist organization Senator Obama has been intimately associated with), is ultra-left and embraces redistributionism:

"ACORN’s bedrock assumption remains the ultra-Left’s familiar anti-capitalist redistributionism. “We are the majority, forged from all the minorities,” reads the group’s “People’s Platform,” whose prose Orwell would have derided as pure commissar-speak. “We will continue our fight . . . until we have shared the wealth*, until we have won our freedom . . . . We have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor”—claptrap that not only falsifies the relative comfort of the poor in America but that also is a classic example of chutzpah, given ACORN’s origins in a movement that undermined the work ethic of the poor. But never mind—ACORN claims that it “stands virtually alone in its dedication to organizing the poor and powerless.” It organizes them to push for ever more government control of the economy, as if it had learned no lessons about the free-market magic that made American cities unexampled engines of job creation for more than a century, proliferating opportunity and catapulting millions out of misery."

But many are also deeply concerned over Senator Obama's radical pro-abortion mindset.


* Frank Salvato: It's Americanism vs. Socialism on November 4th.

Wikipedia's entry on Socialism: here.

Related article from Michelle Malkin here: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/25/the-acorn-obama-knows/

Rush Limbaugh on Colin Powell's endorsement of Senator Obama here.

"'Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race,' Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail. 'OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with.'"

Obama, ACORN and anti-capitalist redistributionism

It's no secret that ACORN's philosophy is premised upon anti-capitalist redistributionism (read here). Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Senator Barack Obama, who has had intimate ties with this radical anti-capitalist leftist organization, should also believe in increasing taxes on working families and individuals and "spreading the wealth around." I have been saying this from the beginning of his campaign. And I posted all of this long before it became such a hot topic a couple of days ago.

But the problem isn't just with Senator Obama. The Democratic Party has been radicalized. Read here.

Senator Obama isn't concerned about "Joe the plumber" or "Joe the barber" anymore than he is concerned about "baby Joe the unborn child in the womb." Not only would he abandon the unborn to a cruel death in their mother's womb, he would abandon the sound principles of capitalism which made this country such a success.

More taxes and bigger government is not the answer. It never has been and it never will be.

FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud

"..voter registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri and at least five other states. Election officials in Ohio and North Carolina also recently questioned the group's voter forms." (From the Breitbart article linked above).

Ohio elections chief asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene; dispute over voter registration, read here. This article relates how, "At least 200,000 newly registered voters have mismatched data, according to an initial review.." [by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat].

Didn't Senator Obama assert that there was only a problem with "a few" voter registrations during the debate last night. 200,000 in Ohio alone is, well, more than "a few."

Meanwhile, Senator Obama is so certain of victory he is planning a giant election night party. Read here. Does he know something we don't?

More on voter fraud...

4,000 dead voters in Houston. Meanwhile, the ACORN voter fraud scandal is developing. Read here.

Paul.

Related reading here.

ACORN: Voter Fraud?

Nevada authorities have raided the Las Vegas office of the community-organizing group ACORN seeking evidence of voter fraud. Readers of this Blog are already aware that Senator Barack Obama has been associated with ACORN in the past. Read here.

Meanwhile, in an article for Newsweek entitled "Obama's 'Good Will' Hunting," Michael Isikoff addresses a campaign-financing scandal: "The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less. Aides say that's an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don't have to be publicly reported.

Consider the cases of Obama donors 'Doodad Pro' of Nunda, N.Y., who gave $17,130, and 'Good Will' of Austin, Texas, who gave more than $11,000—both in excess of the $2,300-per-person federal limit. In two recent letters to the Obama campaign, Federal Election Commission auditors flagged those (and other) donors and informed the campaign that the sums had to be returned. Neither name had ever been publicly reported because both individuals made online donations in $10 and $25 increments. 'Good Will' listed his employer as 'Loving' and his occupation as 'You,' while supplying as his address 1015 Norwood Park Boulevard, which is shared by the Austin nonprofit Goodwill Industries.

Suzanha Burmeister, marketing director for Goodwill, said the group had 'no clue' who the donor was. She added, however, that the group had received five puzzling thank-you letters from the Obama campaign this year, prompting it to send the campaign an e-mail in September pointing out the apparent fraudulent use of its name.'Doodad Pro' listed no occupation or employer; the contributor's listed address is shared by Lloyd and Lynn's Liquor Store in Nunda. 'I have never heard of such an individual,' says Diane Beardsley, who works at the store and is the mother of one of the owners. 'Nobody at this store has that much money to contribute.' (She added that a Doodad's Boutique, located next door, had closed a year ago, before the donations were made.)

Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said the campaign has no idea who the individuals are and has returned all the donations, using the credit-card numbers they gave to the campaign. (In a similar case earlier this year, the campaign returned $33,000 to two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip who had bought T shirts in bulk from the campaign's online store. They had listed their address as 'Ga.,' which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.) 'While no organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will continue to review our fund-raising procedures,' LaBolt said. Some critics say the campaign hasn't done enough. This summer, watchdog groups asked both campaigns to share more information about its small donors. The McCain campaign agreed; the Obama campaign did not. 'They could've done themselves a service' by heeding the suggestions, said Massie Ritsch of the Center for Responsive Politics."

What's going on with the Obama campaign? How much, if anything, does Senator Obama know about all of this?