Before we gloat--just WHO is pulling out of PA, MI and WI?

[DFW]

According to the reports here, just the "GOP."

BUT.....the Rove/Adelson/Koch Super-PACS are still free to post their "uncoordinated" attack ads to the tune of a couple hundred million dollars. I can't imagine the whole Hydra is ceding those three states to us for free, just a few of the most visible serpents' heads. I think this bears a little more scrutiny. Just because our convention on a scale of 1-100 was a 100 and theirs was a fraction, that kind of thing never fazed Karl Rove before, and I doubt it does now. Rove has never settled for playing on an even playing field yet, and I doubt he is about to start now.

Maybe I'm just being a little pessimistic, but even though we may have taken the wind out of the sails of some of the right wing pundits, Rove and the Kochs have enough money to toss a few dozen million around in those three states out of their petty cash box. I don't believe they are conceding those three states to us just because they saw an unfavorable poll or two. If there is a space in the Democratic Party's back still open, you can be sure Rove and the Kochs have a few knives still available to insert there.

[RandySF]

1. I understand the PACS are also pulling out.

[calimary]

2. EVEN SO!!!!! DO NOT GET COMPLACENT!!!!!

And we don't know this is so. And there's still two months to go, and we can't trust the other side any farther than we can throw the Washington Monument.

REMEMBER MAD-EYE MOODY, guys, and what he told Harry Potter:

"CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!!!"

Do NOT get complacent. With the bad guys, I'd always plan for, and brace for, the worst. With all that money behind them, let's not count them out just yet. The rich bastards won't concede willingly OR gracefully.

[DFW]

13. That is the watchword--vigilance

Complacency killed the cat

(or something like that)

[Avalux]

8. Good news! Thanks. n/t

[freshwest]

10. If that's so, good, but otherwise they've still got their millionaire disinfo shills on the air.

The Beck, Boortz, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. and the right wing pulpits are still seeding the fields with fear, hatred and lies. They have not given up one bit and part of their core message is to NOT listen to anything that would enlighten them, like the DNC or any non-conservative source.

There is the voting issue, too. I won't be at ease until Mitt gives his concession speech. Remember in Wisconsin the national (GOP owned) media announced the 'results' hours before the polls were closed, people were still standing in line. I would not put anything past them at all.

It is said that they are directing their efforts to the 9 swing states according to another thread. We can't stop anything we're doing in any state.

[maryellen99]

11. Mitt won't concede

He'll have his son do it for him.

[freshwest]

14. He'll delegate it, huh?

[drm604]

3. Apparently the superpacs are also pulling out.

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/09/conservatives_for_mitt_romney.html

[DFW]

9. That would be significant in a big way

That's only slightly short of a concession speech.

[nanabugg]

4. Watch the head fake! nt

[DonViejo]

5. here ya go

-snip-

The Romney campaign and conservative groups like Crossroads GPS have pulled TV ads in Michigan, Romney’s home state, according to the Detroit News.

Nor are the campaign and super PACs running advertising in Pennsylvania, after unleashing a barrage there over the past five months.

It is still possible for groups to purchase TV advertising in either state at a later date.

The PollTracker Averages show President Obama ahead 48.9 percent to 45.4 percent in Michigan, and in Pennsylvania, where he leads 49.9 percent to 41.4 percent.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-gop-michigan-pennsylvania-pull-out.php?ref=fpb

[Control-Z]

6. They probably think they won't be

associated with or held responsible when their super PACS saturate the airwaves with the dirtiest ads imaginable.

[Hutzpa]

7. If I remember correctly

McCain did the same thing during the last election look how that turn out.

FORWARD!

[stevenleser]

15. Yes, every pres. election year, folks pull out of states they feel are lost causes.

This is significant though.

[AlinPA]

12. Two hundred millions in donations to Romney are peanuts to Adelson. Likewise for the the Kochs.