I've been on top of that prospect for most of a year ~ ever since someone revealed Romney had some financial resources outside his traditional Boston crowd and his Bain cronies.
Of course Obamugabe has to campaign on suppressing the Republican vote ~ that's always been the case. The reason is simple HIS POPULARITY is in steep decline and has been for nearly 3 years ever since the details of Obamakkkare began surfacing.
Obamugabe was elected after a massive voter registration and get out the vote campaign that moved historic numbers of people to the polls. He got 69 million votes! The Republicans got out only 59 million ~ not even an historic high for them.
The Democrats can waste several million votes ~ 10 million of them ~ if the Republicans only do as well as they did in 2008.
But he may already have wasted those voters but he has an ace in the hole ~ an unpopular Republican to run against, but he's not so unpopular that he can't do as well as McCain ~ yet, the Democrats need a bigger margin, so the solution is to discourage Republican voters. The poll thing is symptomatic, but it is not determinative. Democrats may well think it is, but it isn't. Most folks have become leery of polls, but it was noted just yesterday by one of the network talking heads, and also by Mark Levin, that we've had more polls this year already than in all other presidential campaigns in the last century.
Polls are so numerous because they are no longer effective in persuading voters to show up or not show up, or to vote for one candidate or the other. We are finally immune to their siren call.
So, what other idea do the Democrats have? Maybe they figure they have an edge in the debates, maybe not. Keep your eyes open. Then there's the phenomenon where the GOP-e early own discouraged Conservative participation in the campaign, and presumably in the election itself ~ they know what they did ~ and it may well discourage some people from voting ~ they certainly think so now. That particular activity was made at a time when they imagined their boy Romney would only become more popular with time. That he became less popular and more disliked wasn't in the cards, but the Democrats didn't plan on that with Obamugabe either.
The pros have lost their sharpness and now both sides have only one trick left in the bag ~ to discourage voters from showing up.
I"m showing up anyway, and I"ll vote how I wish and neither the Obamabots nor the Mittbots can change my mind with their dire threats of impending doom or cities burning.
Let 'em burn if it comes to that. I don't live there.
Uh, no. 62 million. A lot of fools, but not 10 million more fools than McPain.