If Cuyahoga and Summit are close to 2008 numbers, what does that say to those who told us that Democratic enthusiasm isn’t as strong in 2012 as it was in 2008?
The Rats have thousands of SEIU, NEA union members, ACLU types, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, LGBT and Rainbow Coalition, high school and college kids and by one report even illegals impressed into their ground game with fleet loads of buses taking even the homeless and mentally retarded to the polls. Do the Republican have a ground game to match?
You know now the myth of 2008 - that Democratic base turnout won the election - it didn’t. Kerry maxed out the base and Obama simply maintained it. Obama won because Republicans were unenthusiastic and/or crossed over.
Republicans have come home. That’s why this election will be like 2004.