....is that an organization devoted to enabling the poor and minorities to exercise their constitutional rights is being threatened:

Local ACORN group target of threats

The Seattle-area ACORN office has received vulgar and angry calls from people upset by its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans nationwide to vote, but police say a break-in at the group's Burien offices was not politically motivated.

By McClatchy Newspapers and Seattle Times staff

The Seattle-area ACORN office has received vulgar and angry calls from people upset by its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans nationwide to vote, but police say a break-in at the group's Burien offices was not politically motivated.

Nationally, an ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal-leaning voter registration group's Boston offices were vandalized Thursday.

Attorneys for ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.

Republicans, including presidential candidate John McCain, have criticized the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they've provided little proof.

Of course this is a consequence of the unfounded, but incendiary rhetoric being spewed by the McCain campaign in its desperation to whittle back Obama's lead in the polls. What McCain and Palin are doing is making a mountain out of a molehill and then falaciously associating it with Obama. It's the same some sort of ephemeral guilt by association McCain and the Republicans have made their trademark MO during this campaign. In doing this this McCain and Palin are inciting unstable right-wing wack jobs to violence. For the good of the nation, this junk campaigning must end.