Web Letters: Will the Youth Vote Swing This Election?

By Cora Currier

October 17, 2008

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  • The Republicans are really worried about this one. That's why they have attacked ACORN and are trying to link senator Obama's push to register voters with ACORN. It will be interesting if the media make the distinctions or weather they are to lazy to even bother. They seem to be doing better this time, but they are leaving a lot of room for plausible deniability--for example, Michele Bachmann on the Chris Matthews show. He let her get away with blatant lies that he knew were false without calling her on them.

    JAMES PINETTE

    Caribou, ME

    10/18/2008 @ 9:18pm


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