Adam Serwer

Michelle Malkin and other conservative bloggers are attempting to draw an equivalence between the tone and rhetoric of recent McCain–Palin rallies and the fact that two men torched a McCain sign in Sellwood, Oregon. The problem with this argument is that Rick Davis is absolutely right that campaigns can’t be held responsible for “the occasional […]

Not content to leave the insanity enveloping the far right over ACORN, John McCain‘s campaign manager Rick Davis today contended that McCain deliberately blew up the original bailout package because it contained money for ACORN: “So we can actually say that in addition to saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and we’re very happy that no […]

The silliest part about the claim that ACORN is secretly trying to steal the 2008 election, other than the claim itself, is the idea that the large number of fraudulent forms submitted in Indiana would never have been turned in otherwise. But, as Adam Doster points out, ACORN is required by law to turn in […]

CNN is unable or unwilling to make the critical distinction between registration fraud and voter fraud. As I’ve said before, the former is really easy to do, even by accident, and the latter is extremely difficult and rarely occurs. The sheer volume of ACORN registration forms found in Indiana suggests the forms were deliberately filled […]

The New York Times reports that six of the biggest swing states this cycle have been improperly purging voters from the rolls. The six swing states seem to be in violation of federal law in two ways. Michigan and Colorado are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is […]

Last night an audience member tried to nail down Obama‘s policy about whether he would cross into Pakistan in pursuit of terrorist targets. Obama basically stuck to his line on the issue. What I’ve said is we’re going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of […]

This item has been corrected. Obama sat with Ayers on the board of the Annenberg Challenge not on the board of the Annenberg Foundation as previously stated. The Annenberg Challenge is funded by the Annenberg Foundation. One of the oddest aspects of last night’s debate was the lack of any reference to Bill Ayers. If […]

I don’t really have an opinion as to whether or not ACORN is guilty of registration fraud, but given the hysteria on the right over this issue it’s worth pointing out that registration fraud and voter fraud are two distinct things. What people refer to as registration fraud can be as simple as filling out […]

Last night, Kathryn Jean Lopez posted an e-mail mocking Barack Obama‘s insistence on pronouncing Pakistan  … the way it’s supposed to be pronounced. When Obama says Pock-i-stahn I have an uncontrollable urge to read The New Yorker and find some Chardonnay. Fortunately I have an old copy of NR and a Coors Light to snap […]

So you’re a young Israeli teenager, at that special age when you’re expected to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces, and all of a sudden, you decide you’d rather spend your summer chilling in Elat. So you tell the government you’re following a religious lifestyle that doesn’t allow you to join the army. If you […]