Regardless of whether Obama turns out to be Jesus, there's still an election, and halos don't necessarily translate into votes. (Jesus never ran for public office, nor did he win an election.)

Under normal circumstances (which I hope we still have in this country) what it takes to win is votes. In an earlier post, M. Simon observed that "Marxism doesn't even sell well to its target population: the poor," and later, that "they have no game at this point except mud slinging."

The problem is, no matter how much mud is slung, it takes more than mud to win an election. It takes votes. Each voter has the legal right to cast one.

But what if there aren't enough votes? Or voters?

Today's Detroit Free Press revealed that ACORN (a notorious Marxist group with such close ties to Barack Obama that he's been called the "Senator from ACORN") has been manufacturing voters. So many that it's tough for many local bureaucrats to look the other way:

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

"There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread."

Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State's Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The U.S. Attorney's Office on Friday declined to confirm whether an investigation was taking place.

In recent years, ACORN's voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.

ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem.

I agree that as products go, Marxism is a hard sell. I don't know whether Marxists believe in the laws of supply and demand, but isn't this what might be called manufacturing a (fraudulent) market?

Nevertheless, might it not still fit the religious meme? You know, bringing people -- in this case, thousands of people -- back from the dead?

(It might take a miracle, you know....)