DON'T let Rove & bushCartel SCAM YOU!

[LynnTheDem]

If you look at The Note today, the lede is all about the growing realization that the polls are all moving for Bush. . . .

Only, if you look down into the text down in The Note itself none of this is born out. And that makes sense when you consider that the national polls show no Bush movement whatsoever.

Back then I noted how in 2000 the Bush campaign spent the last week or so confidently predicting a popular vote margin of 6% or 7%. And to drive home the point they spent the last couple days making stops in California and New Jersey.

There was never any chance that Bush would win those states. And there were very good chances he'd lose or come close to losing several states essential to victory, as the final results showed. The entire point of making those trips was to scam the press and create an aura of inevitability that would shape press coverage and depress morale among Democrats. The perception would become a self-fulfilling prophecy. They clearly saw that as the best use of their resources in the final days.

It's so much a part of their election and governing mentality that I wrote a whole article on it.

That's exactly what they're going to try to do this time.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_10_31.php#003877

[aquart]

1. Nothing will stop us from voting. Nothing.

I have absolute faith in that. Not so much faith in the counting, which is why we must overwhelm the polls. This vote cannot be close.

[aquart]

3. Besides, the Redskins won and we know it.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Yes, the pundits are all talking this up right now

about a slight move toward chimp. Clearly they are getting this from the gop, because is isn't happening. Republicans will probably be staying home in record numbers this time. They are afraid of terrorists blowing up their polling places probably.