THE GANG OF 75 - AT 9:42 A.M. ET:  The great Michael Barone analyzes the 345-75 vote in the House yesterday to defund ACORN.  It was extraordinary.  Even a majority of Democrats, 172-75, voted against the corrupt leftist group.  All Republicans voted against it.  Democrats clearly wanted to get off the Titanic before the movie was made.  From the Washington Examiner:

This would not have occurred but for http://biggovernment.com/ the Big Government videos of ACORN employees encouraging tax evasion and prostitution. "Mainstream media" studiously ignored this big, big story, because it put Obama's political allies in ACORN in a bad light--such an egregious bit of biased coverage that it aroused derision and contempt from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But "mainstream media" couldn't cover up this scandal, as much as it wanted to.

And...

The 75 districts represented by members who voted against defunding ACORN delivered an average majority of 72%-26% for Barack Obama. Only two of those districts, represented by West Virginia Democrats Alan Mollohan and Nick Joe Rahall, voted for John McCain. By my count, 29 of those districts are represented by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and 7 districts by members of the Hispanic Caucus. The 11 districts of those not voting averaged 54%-45% for Obama and the 2 districts of those voting present averaged 77%-23% for Obama. By my calculation, that means the average vote in the districts of the 345 members who voted to defund ACORN was about 50%-48% for McCain. As indicated by members' votes, mainstream America was clearly repulsed by the facts that "mainstream media" tried to conceal.

COMMENT:  Bulls-eye for Barone.  That's the kind of analysis you won't get in some of the trendier mainstream papers.  But it tells the story of who still insists on supporting ACORN.  As we indicated here yesterday, almost all the 75 come from safe districts.  Their constituents probably have no problem with funding the group.

September 18,  2009