Are you serious??? 11 points is nothing after a Convention. I hope the Republicans don't just think the media and the Dems are going to roll over after the CNN poll. They are going to be more vicious, there are going to be more negative stories, there are going to be lies, there are going to be dead people going to polls, ballot stuffing, multiple computer votes.
This is war and you don't fight a war with no weapons. Let the 527's do Bush's dirty work. If it is the truth then start letting people know about it. Rove knows this is war and he treated 2000 as a war. The only thing is he put down his arms the last week of the 2000 campaign. Rove underestimated the Democrat vote fraud machine.
Do you know how much money the Dems have in 527's? Do you knwo how much Kerry put into the swing state ads this week? We cannot relax now and we have to fight fire with fire.
Check out this gallup.com page for a chart of Post-Convention Increases in Support, 1964-2004 -- It shows that Kerry is the only one ever to get a "negative bounce" after his convention.