ACORN Accusations

FactCheck by Jess Henig, Ronald Lampard | Oct. 18, 2008 (Special Report)
McCain makes exaggerated claims of "voter fraud." Obama soft-pedals his connections.

The McCain-Palin campaign accuses ACORN, a community activist group that operates nationwide, of perpetrating "massive voter fraud." It says Obama has “long and deep” ties to the group. We find both claims to be exaggerated. But we also find Obama has understated the extent of his work with the group. Full Story »

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 by Patricia L'Herrou - Oct. 18, 2008

this seems somewhat more complicated than factcheck usually gets --at least partly because there's a lot of information to check. i wish for a more concise summary here before or after the information which could be used in other's stories to clear up the questions it seems as if it bent over backwards for fairness but some statements made for political purposes were not immediately checkable.

from my biased perspective, it seems that there isn't an emphasis on the difference in degree of exaggeration by each party.

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