Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It!

It is difficult to blame these poor fools when this is agressively pushed by a network which members of the rest of the mainstream media, people such as Jake Tapper, viciously defend as legitimate.

The wingnuts have finally found someone else to blame other than Bill Clinton for this morning's burnt toast.

This is the biggest sign of the true psychosis of the core base. The closer comparison to this election isn't how anyone felt after 2000 - where the issue was so close only a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling ended the recount in Florida - but how people viewed the 1992 or 2004 election. Very few people think Bush stole 04 or that Clinton (by conspiring with Perot) stole 92, but those that do are a die hard bunch.

ACORN stole my lunch in third grade!! I'm telling my mommy!!

It's hardly surprising, considering that the vast majority of Republicans think that Rush and Glenn and Ann and Billo speak the truth. Anybody who thinks that Americans are incapable of falling for the sorts of lies perpetuated by the National Socialists in 1930s Germany isn't paying attention.

GOP: The Party of Ignorant Nuts

They think this because that's what they'd do -- steal the election. Oh wait . . . they did.

In their minds, no one wins honestly and politics is always dirty. That's how they operate.

just a refresher on the numbers: obama had 9.5 million more votes, 7 more percentage points, and 192 more electoral votes than mccain.

It's not so much insanity as wishful thinking.

The people who make up the current GOP base wish they lived in a different world. And the easiest way for people to remain at peace when they are so conflicted is to talk like they live in a different world.

In his heart of hearts Gov Sanford knows he wasn't hiking the Appalachian Trail, and Larry Craig knows he likes sex with dudes so much that he's willing to do it with annonymous men in bathrooms. But denying the objective truth is their own little protest against the reality which they wish wasn't true.

People do it all the time :
I wasn't speeding, the cop lied.
I didn't eat the ice cream.
Someone didn't bring a map.

I think the best thing to do when you hear people say this kind of thing is pat them on they head, and say "there there. it'll be alright."

The Republicans blaming on their problems on African-Americans and Acorn is like the Nazis blaming all their problems on the Jews.

Well, their formulation is ACORN = blacks, black people voted overwhelmingly for Obama, therefore ACORN stole the election. As we've heard in several formulations (ie, "If you leave out minority votes...," "Among white voters...") if you're not white your vote doesn't really count.

I'm not astonished at all.

"Is next... SVIMVEAR!!! WERY NICE!!!" Remember that ad?

This goes beyond Colbert's "truthiness". Republicans who say they "believe" ACORN stole the election are not expressing a rational, empirical belief. They are expressing a feeling that makes them feel good.

Remember that Wendy's ad with the "Soviet Fashion Show"? All the outfits were identical grey smocks, and the announcer kept calling them different things? Did we really think that was how life in the Soviet Union was? Or was it simply jingoism? Did we simply get a thrill from not just poking fun at the Soviets, but sort of allowing ourselves to live in a fairy-tale bubble where we could feel good about how much better America was, and even if the USSR wasn't quite THAT bad, it was, you know, more or less, close enough... hey, what are you, some kind of Commie sympathizer?

In other words, the people who answered "YES" weren't suggesting that they had good evidence -- although I have no doubt that SOME of them *were* just expressing a legitimate belief -- rather, they were expressing a sentiment. They were expressing their allegience to an idea, and the very notion of logically figuring out whether it was factually so or not is not even part of how they process the world.

I suspect this is what religious faith is for many people -- they don't think logically that their religion is correct; rather, they have an emotional allegiance to their faith. It's an authoritarian thing where you emotionally give authority for the whole operation over to someone else.

Why do I "believe" that ACORN stole the election? Because Glenn Beck made me FEEL that way, and my allegiance is to him.

I think the poll represents how these folks really feel. A friend on FB argued against my post claiming Bill-O and Dobbs were insane by suggesting Obama was the devil. After claiming Bill-O never said it, I showed him the video. His response? "I've also asked myself that question."

I don't see a breakdown of those polled, it just says "registered voters." Am I missing it? What percentage are Repub vs Dem vs Indy? What ages? What races? What states? Without some idea of who's being asked the questions the poll is meaningless.

"Whites" (whatever that really means), and more specifically white males, are becoming a plurality in this country and losing their hold on positions of power. The only way to attempt to maintain power is to legitimize all other groups in an attempt to make the argument "they" are still the ones deserving of said power.

IMO, opinion, this is truly why conservatives yearn for the '50s; it's not the slower pace of life but that otehr groups "knew their place".

Just like 'He's a Kenyan!' replaced 'He's a Nig*er!' in the modern Republican lexicon due to electoral and imagie concerns, so to has 'Acorn stole the Election!' has replaced 'Nig%ers stole the election/Are Ruining the Country/Are Depurifying society!'.

Just as long as the rabid base doesn't have to think to long to determine what's really being said, it's the same thing.