If any of you fellow Kossacks are like me, you've been digesting the most recent polling data with mixed cocktail of elation and trepidation. I'm not to proud to admit that I've been conditioned to expect a climactic coup from the bowels of Rovian politics that suddenly shifts momentum and snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
What has me spooked today are some of the articles that have been cropping up about these massive voter purges - scrubbing tens of thousands of newly registered voters off the rolls.
I'm a little bit concerned that outside of a few instances, I haven't heard much about the Obama campaign's aggressive push back on this. I don't know if that means a legal and logistic challenge is being mounted, but the fact that we haven't heard about it seems troubling to me.
What I think bears watching are stories that begin filtering their way into the right wing press and then mainstream media discounting the polls or challenging the results of the polls. We already saw today that McCain's campaign poo-poo'd the Quinnipiac polls almost as soon as they were released. Now that they've been backed up by the CNN polls I think the McCain campaign is going to get dirtier, nastier, and filthier not only in the behavior we SEE but also in what we DON'T SEE.
In my opinion gaming the election by purging voters from the rolls will be matched by a communication strategy undermining the legitimacy of the polls. The stage will have to be set to explain how McCain could possibly have over-performed his numbers.
That's my take anyway.