I'm going to make a prediction: if four weeks from now we still have the same ratios in OH among absentees/early votes that we have now, the GOP turnout everywhere will EXCEED 2012 percentages.
If I were Romney up against our current media where everything I say is a gaffe that sinks my campaign (again), I wouldn’t go the Gingrich scorched earth approach. I’d quietly reduce my presence in the media, let Obama say stupid stuff, and build up a huge, unprecedented behind-the-scenes effort to keep track of voters in hierarchies organized from state to county to precinct to individual level.
I’d organize it like a big corporation, put people in charge. I’d shoot for 100% turnout of all registered Republicans, at least 80% of them before Election Day in early voting states.
It does seem like that is exactly what Romney is doing.
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