Posted on 11/05/2012 10:19:33 AM PST by GonzoII
New York Times best-selling author Brad Thor, based in Chicago, tells TheBlaze that the Obama campaign may be planning to preemptively announce victory in the presidential election based on early voting numbers in an attempt to “demoralize Mitt Romney supporters.”
Citing a “very solid source” in Chicago, Thor says the Obama campaign is looking to make it appear to voters that they have “this thing sewed up and are less than 24 hours to victory,” according to his source.
Meanwhile, team Obama will also urge voters to get out and vote so they can say they were part of the important 2012 election that resulted in a second term for Obama.
While Thor can’t reveal his source, he told TheBlaze multiple times that the source is very reliable.
The flip side of the coin, the author explained, is that the Obama campaign is counting on the mainstream media to drive home their narrative should they implement this strategy.
“They are so invested in Obama,” Thor said of the media. “I don’t see how any truth loving person could look to the mainstream media ever again. This election should be the final nail in the coffin with the mainstream media.”
Why would the campaign resort to such a Chicago-style political tactic? According to Thor, it’s because their support is diminished across the board and they know they’re in trouble.
“Their support is down,” he told TheBlaze. “All the polling has been the exact same thing. They have been oversampling Democrats, and they are not getting the 2008 levels of voting.”
Whether or not the Obama campaign will set this plan into motion remains to be seen. As Thor points out, the plot could have been brought up but never considered seriously by the top officials in the campaign. If it is being considered though, the author hopes that all the attention forces the Obama camp to ditch the effort.
If true. They know they lost.
Stupid move by PMSNBC. The only vote they’re going to depress with this tactic is the Dem vote.
THIS TRICK DID WORK. IT SUPPRESSED THE VOTE IN THE PANHANDLE—AND CAUSED THE ENDLESS COUNTING OF CHADS.
They want riots.
This is aimed at Colorado, Nevada, and the west. When western Romney supporters get into their cars after work they will turn on the radio and be told that it is over and they should not waste thier time voting.
Since I live right here in the rotten, loathsome heart of Obamaland, I know that my vote really counts for nothing. I’m going to vote anyway, as I have in every election since 1976. If Romney loses, at least I’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that I still made the right choice. If Romney wins, I’ll have the satisfaction of being with those among my countrymen who have gotten together to kick Obama’s sorry @ss out of an office he never should have had in the first place.
VOTE!!!!
"If it bleeds, it leads." Good for ratings...real good.
Oh and please tell us what the big brains at MSNBC are saying the reason Ryan is distancing himself? I mean what are they using as evidence to support this BS notion?
If Mitt wins, they want to taint the victory as much as possible, just as with Bush in 2000.....Bush was considerably weakened from Day One, because of that debacle.
Since I live right here in the rotten, loathsome heart of Obamaland, I know that my vote really counts for nothing. I’m going to vote anyway, as I have in every election since 1976. If Romney loses, at least I’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that I still made the right choice. If Romney wins, I’ll have the satisfaction of being with those among my countrymen who have gotten together to kick Obama’s sorry @ss out of an office he never should have had in the first place.
VOTE!!!!
So this is all that Obama and his cabal of bonesmokers have got?
Do any Freepers have any means of self-protection, in the event of riots? (/clearly rhetorical question)
Yes okay but HOW is Ryan distancing himself? I mean he’s on the campaign trail with and without Romney. And even if R/R lose it’s gonna be close. Why would he distance himself? Makes no sense. These people live in effing la la land.
There are problems with this tactic.
1) it would be directed at the right-wing voters who don’t believe a thing the Enemamedia says.
2) there is no one who would be discouraged from voting who would vote for Romney but many who would support The Disaster who would stay home.
This Romney voter votes in every election in Chicago and never has the idea that his vote will do anything to stop the Machine here. I certainly won’t let something like this zany scheme stop me.
HA..I’m in the West...Romney voters are NOT quitters...
Sort of like I here a leftist say he has anonymous sources...
Sort of like I hear Harry Reid talk about his anonymous friend of Romney who knew Romney didn’t pay taxes...
As a matter of fact, these anonymous friends are all the same person, who has the initials, B.S.
(And, BTW, there’s a discount of buying B.S. free because he’s well, actually non-existent anyways.)
Cue the photo of the “Dewey Defeats Truman” newspaper fron the 1940’s.
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