I take it nobody watched Rachel Maddow last night? She reported that up to 19% of Colorado’s Democrats have been purged from the voter rolls. Bobby Kennedy Jr. was the guest, his latest article the subject.

The article, ‘How to Block the Vote’: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote

The show: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27313887#27313887

“Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall,” says Republican strategist Karl Rove. “So we’ll win without votes.”

Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. “Diebold have come to the party big time.” Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters “McCAIN” or “REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER.”

The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. “If the typeface or font size is different on their driver’s licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that’s obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy.”

The party will check for dead voters as well. “We’re making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they’re not, we’ll correct that.” Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. “You betcha!”

All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. “We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It’s nonsense to say otherwise.”

Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day’s imprisonment: November 4th.

Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. “One man, one vote. That man being me.”

Source: http://tinyurl.com/5cc3ve

It´s that simple.

1) The senior staff seems to think it has convinced McCain to drop his reluctance to play the race card, with trial balloons afloatin’ that Obama’s ex-reverend will get an encore in the coming days in negative ads and such.

And if they’re really going to go there – to try to make the campaign about race and, specifically, some white people’s fears of pigmentation – then it would make total sense for McCain to temporarily ignore Colorado, where that message ain’t gonna hunt, and shift focus to Appalachia and the South: Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and, yes, Pennsylvania and even Florida being the swing states where racially charged politics have sometimes, in the past, worked for the Republicans, or, in Appalachia, where they worked for the Clintons during the primaries.

Nate’s own theory:

2) My guess is that something like this happened: they ran their usual set of internal polls over the weekend, and saw themselves 5 points down in Colorado and Virginia. 8 points down in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and 10 points down in Iowa and New Mexico. But perhaps Pennsylvania came in at a -6 or something — not much worse than the others — and they decided: why worry about all those states when we can worry about just this one.

My own take is that the campaign knows, as most people have said, that the race is going to tighten as we near November 4. By focusing on Penn, as the race tightens across the country, and Penn begins to close, they’ll claim that McCain has momentum going into Nov. 4. This would be better, if they can shift some polls to McCain’s favor since then that momentum will seem more palpable and hope that other states follow suit.

Past that, I’m still trying to figure out their end game.