"President Hope gets re-elected by being Candidate Destroyer"

William Jacobson has concluded that Obama's only path to victory is obliterating his opponent:

Sure, there are many people dependent on government largess and some otherwise conservative people who will vote for Obama for racial and/or ethic reasons, but can combining liberals with non-liberal government dependents and racial/ethnic voters really get Obama over the top?

Do I live in the same country as these mysterious non-liberal Obama supporters?

Apparently I do.  Some recent polling shows Obama ahead by mid-to-high single digits nationally, something discounted by one of the people mentioned by [Paul] Rahe, Nate Silver:

… it is doubtful that Mr. Obama leads by as many as four or six points now (as some other polling aggregation Web sites suggest), and even more doubtful that he is seven or nine points ahead.

I hope my gut is correct and this nation is not so obsessed with short-term selfishness and racial/ethnic identity politics as to put those demands ahead of our children’s futures.

Which is why Obama’s only choice is to destroy Romney.  It’s how Obama wins, because there is no majority ready to return Obama to office.

President Hope gets re-elected by being Candidate Destroyer.

This explains rationally what it is we're seeing of late though we can't set aside the fact that his campaign of destruction is dependent upon a gullible and ignorant electorate who'll buy into the lies being fomented.

And that frankly is quite disturbing.

The ignorance, as has been shown, is deep.

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[sillyMe]

The election will be won or lost in 4 or 5 states and within those states a handful of counties each. That is maybe 20 or so critical counties. Right now while we all argue over Romneys taxes and Obamas dishonest commercials Democrat operatives are working in these counties to register dead voters secure absentee ballots and train union thugs to vote in every precinct. I predict that on election night it will appear that Romney won by a cat's whisker and the next morning when you wake up more votes will have been "found" and Obama will win in the true Chicago fashion. To top it off the Republicans will simply roll over and not challenege the obvious voter fraud and then later when it becomes obvious the election was stolen they Republicans won't have the balls to impeach him either. Four more years of the Marxist/Socialist in Chief will destroy our country and the Republicans will be figuring out how to split the "pork" by working with the Democrats.