In the last 36 hours, for a guy who supposedly has all the momentum going his way, the Scott Brown campaign seems to be doing some things you never see a frontrunner who is winning going away do. Entries here and in other blogs may be telling a different story than the one Da Media is promoting -- that Brown is ahead and poised to win everything tomorrow.
Witness the evidence below ...
Does a campaign with everything going for it do the following with less than 48 hours to go before an election:
-- RedState.com asking Brown supporters to jam Coakley phone banks.
-- Reports of Brown supporters openly burning Coakley signs.
-- Brown allowing himself a smirk at a suggestion at a rally that Coakley should be raped by a curling iron.
-- Hecklers disrupting Obama's speech at a Coakley rally.
-- Whining openly and loudly at crowd estimates at the competing rallies.
-- And most recently, a report from Talking Points Memo the teabaggers are begging Joe Kennedy ("I") to drop out of the race on the eve of the election.
If you're pulling away you don't do any of this stuff on the eve of the election -- you instead work to get your vote out and ignore the other side. You do this dirty trick stuff because you think the election is going to be razor-thin - or that you are desperate to suppress the vote of the other side because you fear that turnout will go against you. That's the Rove playbook to a tee -- remember, he NEVER won an election going away, but instead had to rely on dirty tricks to eke out victories.
Either this is the only book that Scott Brown and the teabaggers know how to read, or their numbers are showing that he really doesn't have the momentum the rest of Da Media thinks he does and he has to pull out every scumbag trick in the book to win. But he has to know he's been very lucky to draw a dullard for an opponent, the world caught up with him in the last week, and that he has to do everything and anything to win because it's actually slipping away.
At least I hope so.
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