The Obama campaign described the accusations as a spurious effort to tie Mr. Obama to potentially fraudulent voter registrations.
He says the system would have two benefits: it would minimise spurious birther campaigns against particular individuals and it would "serve to concentrate the minds of candidates who might otherwise be inclined to take a cavalier attitude to the issue".
Never has one of the pro-Chevron bloggers we discussed here opted to seriously address that point; instead, they engage in spurious smear campaigns based on contrived "scandals".
On Sunday, he published a detailed statement in which he insisted that "a spurious and vicious campaign" was being waged against him.
During nearly five hours of partisan floor debate, House Republicans repeatedly denounced the bill as a spurious attempt at campaign finance reform, and after it passed, 77 to 71, leading Republicans said they would urge the governor to veto it.
Democrats say Mr. Abbott has done little but use his office to promote himself, a charge Mr. Abbott's campaign calls "spurious".
Had our news stories been "spurious", "virulent" or "Tory campaigns" they would not have mattered.
Baha'i communities around the world insist these charges are spurious and part of a campaign to scapegoat members of the faith.
As Jake Tapper, senior national correspondent for ABC News puts it, "You gotta have some serious stones to run a spurious TV ad assailing Obama for tenuous ties to former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines when your campaign manager's lobbying firm is still being paid by Freddie Mac".
In recent years Republicans have subverted our own elections through fraud, Swift Boat attacks, spurious federal prosecutions, voter suppression, illegal campaign donations, bizarre Supreme Court rulings, rigged voting machines, and gerrymandering.
