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There are days when this election seems like a Stephen King short story, or like a “B” horror movie.  Or a Stephen King short story that was made into a “B” horror movie - - “Children of the Corn.”

In the Stephen King short story, Burt and Vicky are driving through Nebraska when their vehicle runs over the body of a young man who was murdered and thrown onto the road.  When they go to the next town to report the incident, they find it apparently deserted.  Burt discovers that the town’s children have murdered all of the adults after being drawn into a cult which reveres an evil being hiding in the cornfields, “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”. When Vicky is captured by the children, Burt runs into the cornfields, where he later finds the bodies of Vicky, the town’s minister, and a police chief. “He Who Walks Behind the Rows” approaches . . . .

The symbolism is evident. Burt (”Everyman”) witnesses the death of Vicky (”family”), the minister (”faith”), and the police chief (”rules”, and thus “community”) - - in other words, the destruction of traditional values - - before he is in turn destroyed by the children of the corn.

How about a casting call for our sequel, “Children of the ObamACORN?”  I’ll let you fill in the roles of the main characters while I focus on the “children” themselves.  Of course, there’s no shortage of candidates, including the youthful voter-registerers of ACORN and related groups.  Here’s how they’re auditioning:

New Mexico: Registrations submitted by ACORN workers are included in some 1,100 applications being investigated for fraud.

Ohio: Registration of homeless persons, sometimes by the busload, is raising fears of multiple-voting problems.  According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, investigations had been initiated because ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, showing the person living at different addresses, or submitted cards that had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Other possibly-fraudulent submissions showed several persons residing at the address of a restaurant.

Pennsylvania: According to the Patriot-News, an investigation of ACORN was initiated after elections officials noted some 100 suspicious registrations.

West Virginia: Instances of voter registration fraud in Kanawha County have prompted the West Virginia Secretary of State to issue a fraud alert, according to an article in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch.

Wisconsin: An article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that ACORN hired convicted felons to register voters and that a 21-year-old working for a similar group had been charged with voter fraud.  Milwaukee election officials have referred 49 voter registration workers to the District Attorney’s office for investigation of whether they intentionally submitted fraudulent names.  A news report in August related that 32 ACORN workers were being investigated for forged or falsified applications, including one submitted for a deceased “voter.”

Florida, Nevada, North Carolina: See VOTER FRAUD ALERT - - Obama & ACORN Fact Sheet

ALSO PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU:

Fear and Loathing on Capitol Hill - - Fearing a voter insurrection, Congressional Democrats courageously blame everyone else for the subprime-mortgage mess they created.

Attack Of The Killer Wing Nuts - - Chicago-style political thuggery spills out into the Heartland, where nervous citizens prepare to lock and load on Election Day.

Vote of the Living Dead - - In this 2008 cult-classic horror election, vote-stealing ACORN zombies crawl from the graveyards to ensure the election of Barack Obama

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