I've noticed something interesting lately coming out of the ether that has corresponded with Obama's rise in the polling. Republican activists and assorted right-wingers are seeing the writing on the wall and attempting to discredit an increasingly likely Obama re-election by framing Obama supporters as "too stupid" to understand the real issues.
You see, I have a "crazy aunt" type of the wingnut persuasion who inexplicably sends me unsolicited e-mail forwards culled from the deep bowels of tinfoildom, the fevered imagination of the resentful teapartiers staring down another four years of the country being run by someone who doesn't look like the 42 presidents had a baby and named him Willard. The forwards actually serve a useful function, since they give me insight into a world I would otherwise not have access too, the Republican Id at this exact movement.
The latest trope is an extension of the idea that Barack Obama wouldn't have been elected if only the people knew the "real" Barack Obama, i.e. the Fox News, Dinesh D'Souza caricature that the liberal media is hiding from us. Given that exposing the "real" Obama hasn't worked and exposing the real Mitt Romney has (see 47% video), the next trick is to show that Obama supporters are really dumb ghetto dwellers who don't know what the issues are, don't know who Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan even are or what Barack Obama's positions are, and think that Barack Obama is going to give black people free cell phones if he's re-elected (I'm summarizing, but not making this up at all). These are videos going around that show an interviewer talking to an "Obama supporter" that is clearly a caricature of a "ghetto fabulous" black person or just some not-white person who isn't really all there and saying that's why Mitt Romney is losing, because the increasingly becoming majority-minority American people are just too dumb to fathom his brilliance. After all, it couldn't be because the majority of smart, eminently rational people of all races just don't like him or his policies or Republican ideas in general.
I'd say this is a bullish sign for Obama's re-election if the whole thing didn't want to make me wretch.