About a month ago, I wrote about the importance of remembering the motivation behind the firing of U.S. Attorneys, which has come to be known as the U.S. Attorney scandal.  At the time I found the relative quiet about the scandal in the run-up to the election a little disturbing.  Thankfully, a few things have changed since then.

For one thing, the electoral map is looking a hell of a lot better for the Obama-Biden ticket.  We're now over half-way to election day from where we stood then and have seen nothing but gains for the Democratic ticket.  This is good, because it means there's far less wiggle-room when it comes to election shenanigans.

I also noted then, in a reply to Dag's very own Genghis, that we were starting to hear rumblings from the right about ACORN.  As we've seen in recent weeks, this has only increased.  If you saw Bill Maher's Real Time this past Friday, you may have noticed that Stephen Moore was doing his best to push the "ACORN equals voter fraud" meme as well as pointing out that Barack Obama has worked with them (of course, Mr. Moore didn't find the opportunity to mention this).

It's also good to see Josh Marshall returning focus to the story for which he was awarded the Polk.

Even so, keep this story in the forefront of your mind as we move onward to and even through election day.  If Monica Goodling's testimony (along roughly 500 e-mails which were misdirected toward georgewbush.org) is any indication, there is a disturbing omen in the promotion of Tim Griffin.  It's not necessarily just a matter of firing attorneys who didn't pursue bogus vote fraud investigations with charges.  It's about promoting the cagers to prosecutor.

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Cross-posted at dagblog.com