McCain camp gets ready to blame ACORN for "stolen" election. Is Crist "naive?"

John McCain campaign manager Rick Davis just ended a conference call with reporters to bash the get-out-the-vote group ACORN that's at the center of a number of suspicious voter-registration fraud cases. Amid mentioning battleground states like Ohio, Indiana, Nevada and Florida, Davis hammered home Barack Obama's ties to ACORN. (Here's what Republicans have to say. Here's what Obama's camp has to say. Whom do you believe?)

Unmentioned: ACORN in some of the states (like Florida and Nevada) flagged the registrations as potential frauds and is starting to suggest they're being set up. Also, simply creating a fake voter is far easier than casting a fraudulent ballot.

Davis painted a bleaker picture: "The idea that what we've just laid out shouldn't raise the hackles of any discerning individual who would look at this as an attempt to manipulate elections in these sates is naive."

So call Florida Gov. Charlie Crist "naive." Asked yesterday if he thought there was a problem, he said "no." Maybe his secretary of state, Kurt Browning, is as well. He has said there could be some vote fraud, which is tougher and tougher to accomplish, and that he has had a good working relationship with ACORN. So do elections supervisors in Miami-Dade, Broward and Orange counties, where ACORN focused its Florida efforts.

Davis said the word needs to get out about ACORN "so that none of those battleground states are stolen from the McCain campaign as ACORN works in league with other organizations like the Obama campaign."

One reporter asked why neither McCain nor Sarah Palin mentioned today's stock market troubles. Davis said they couldn't talk about it every day: "I don’t know if you really want to turn a campaign into a CNBC show on the stock market."

Especially when you're trying to market a true-crime show about Obama's connections to ACORN and Bill Ayers.

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