[mellow velo]

The Øbama camp can read the tea leaves, too. They know that his favorability is tanking. That's why there'll be a scorched earth policy ... ref Stephanie Cutter, et al ... in order to increase Romney's unfavorability.

Øbama will spew forth a negative campaign to dwarf all previous negative campaigns.

[Minnesota fox]

I want someone smarter than me to explain: IF going negative is starting to bring his favorability down, how then, would they even consider going “scorched earth???”