I don't know that I'd call our country widely informed, when half of the population self-limit their source of information (if they pay attention at all) to right-wing extremist voices like Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, etc. They're not widely informed, if you could call them informed at all. That same population is the target demo for the scare tactics, so they're already preprogrammed to react to it.
As far as the Acorn investigation, that's abuse of power, and it's why Congress should have impeached years ago.
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