“I thought the election was just a formality. Could Dems be experiencing a false sense of inevitability?”
This is why, if polled, you purposely skew the polls - as in what the PUMAs have done. By doing this you (A) give the Obama supporters a false sense of security and (B) scare the hell out of the McCain supporters. Remember, people always act more decisively out of fear than they do out of hope and contentment.
Many of us are not crazy about McCain but the Democrats have scared us to the point that we walk over broken glass to vote for McCain.
Excellent point.