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Rumor: Chicago "Shake Up" as Team Obama Gets Nervous

HermanBB Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 1:42 PM
I find it very, very hard (okay impossible) to believe any supporter of Obama would change their mind based on a single debate.
oscopino Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 2:26 PM
The debate would be the iceing on the cake... the underlying reason is that obama has been a total failure. I have actually come across people who voted obama last time who intend to vote Romney this time however I have not - and bet you haven't either - come across anyone who voted McCain last time and is now considering votin obama...
restoreliberty Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 2:21 PM
THAT is what oversampling will do, these aren't reformed democrats that are showing up in these polls, these are simply polls that have stopped weeding out Republicans based on what 2008 numbers were. There was a huge shift in the electorate in 2010 and many, many people who never thought it made a difference if they voted or not found out the hard and painful way that it does. Republican voter registration numbers have been on the rise for 2 years now.
Buck O Wrote: Oct 09, 2012 1:45 PM
Maybe if they weren't true-believing 0bama supporters they might. And then, there's the undecideds, of whom there are still at least a few.

The plot thickens.  "Shake ups" generally do not occur inside campaigns that believe they are winning; they're reset buttons to change the trajectory of races:
 

"The cold hand of fear grabbing Chicago."  


Todd reports that some of Obama's "sharpest communicators" from 2008 are being called back into service, but who would those people be?  Gibbs, Axelrod, Messina, Plouffe...they're all still around.  Bill Burton's missing this time (we know what

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