Let's get this right. The third and final debate, and what we learned is that Acorn is destroying the fabric of democracy. John Lewis is out of line. And Joe the Plumber is a target of Democratic class warfare. Meanwhile, the economy isn’t getting better anytime soon and it's been confirmed that the White House explicitly endorsed waterboarding. Is anyone explaining how we got into this mess and how we might get out of it? In other words who's asking the tough questions?

We'll take the bait for a little while, and talk about Joe the plumber for the next 48 hours. Brandon Brice, joining us from HipHopRepublicans, says it's the media not the campaigns who are doing us the disservice of focusing on associations over issues. Rebecca Traister, staff writer at Salon says the Joe phenom taps into the class divisions really at play -- Joe is making over a quarter of a million a year, afterall. Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen was dumbfounded by the air quotes moment - that's what McCain thinks of women's health?

Mark Winston Griffith of the Drum Major Institute joins us for a commentary in support of ACORN. He says, We are ACORN. The right wing attack on the community organizing group ACORN is a frontal assault on all of us who fight for social and economic justice.

Then on to the congressional races. States like Virginia are breaking Dem where they have not in years. Former Rainbow PUSH Coalition Political Director, Steve Cobble of the Institute for Policy Studies surveys the electoral landscape, and Tom Perriello, running for the 5th district-VA tells us about the ads being run against him in that race. Hint: his skin is darkened, a beard is added, and they put him behind bars. Then they accuse him of being a New Yorker. Wha...???

It's all on this episode of GRITtv.