Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken?
That’s the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune story.” On his Slate.com blog, Kausfiles, Mickey Kaus linked to Kersten’s column, which he falsely claimed was a “Minneapolis Star Tribune story,” and stated: “Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken? That’s the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune story. Franken won by 312 votes. ACORN claimed to have registered 48,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1% were ineligible but cast ballots, or had ballots cast for them illegally, and survived the recount process … that’s 480 votes, almost certainly overwhelmingly cast for Franken. … Maybe in pristine Minnesota even ACORN is clean. If so, the state would apparently be an outlier.
