However, I have a hard time believing the author is who she says she is (or if she’s actually a she).

This sounds like it is written by one of our own right-siders to create a stir, buzz and hope and to perhaps create an internal witch hunt in the Obama Campaign.

I have no doubt there are workers on Obama’s team who feel this way. However, I find it hard to beleive they would write such an article in this way at this time where it would be so easy to figure out who they were.

If this supposed campaign worker were really having such a need to reveal, such a crisis of confidence, the correct thing to do would be to drop from the campaign and go public in a different way where their credibility would buoy their message and help create the effect they are seeking.

I think the author probably knows someone well enough in the campaign to get insider info and is ghost writing that person’s remarks, whether authorized or not.

Such a writer would have greater traction by simply saying so: “I have a friend somewhere deep in the Obama organization who says…”

The huge variances and swings seen in different polls ought to suggest to folks that something very odd is happening this election.

Indeed. In a recent note to my family, I said something similar:

Should he (”The One”, that is) lose, then this election will result in a lot of questions along the lines of “How could the polls be so wrong”.

Someone put a lot of work into this and would have to know they would be found out if true. A “… female grad student in my 20’s … Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign.” does not leave a lot of possibilities. So if authentic my guess would be a single white woman in a Ph.D English Lit program in New York City or Boston, taking a LONG break from studies (her thesis), with time on her hands since she is not in a battleground state. But I wouldn’t lay money on this either way.

My gut feel is that there are no undecided voters left. Just folks scared of Obama who hang up or say undecided. Obama supporters don’t seem shy about announcing their choice. If you are a Democrat and anti-Obama (not pro-McCain, just anti-Obama), you are not going to tell a soul about this. You don’t know who is on the other end of the phone, and your family may be listening in on your side.

If the undecideds mostly break for McCain, Obama can lose. Which would explain his campaign in the last days, that doesn’t look like he believes in the blow-out polls predict.

And disgruntled Hillary supporters are very capable of tanking so Obama loses. Check out divorce court if you think this to be implausible.

The laws of probability and statistics are the same for all pollsters, and they are predicting the same event. The huge variances and swings seen in different polls ought to suggest to folks that something very odd is happening this election. I don’t know how pollsters are going to CYA on this one. Right now their possible margin of error seems larger than the spread.

Suddenly your ideals caught up to you?

It is difficult to not be upset at this shameless flip-flopping after being entrusted to participate in a campaign that a carpet-bagging Clinton fanatic could never match.

If only there were a way to vet characters who mar the political process this way…

I would call this a reenergizing post rather than an attempt to lull us into complacency.

Would they really balk at direct bribery of polling firms?

Would is very different from could.

I doubt very much that it would be possible to bribe that many people without someone spilling the beans - and by that I mean a credible witness with specific information.

That kind of campaign would need to involve all the firms, including those that also work for the Republicans. I don’t think it would be possible.

In addition, in the big swing states that really matter - Florida, Ohio etc - the polls show that its very close. If there was some bribery going on then surely these would be the first to show an overwhelming Obama lead.

I hate the terms, “dirty politics as usual,” and “poll skewing.” It’s sad that we have come to this, in this country. Luckily we, as a nation, are much smarter than we are given credit for, and Tuesday will show this. However, it is unfortunate that we are also fighting an economy for which the current administration is taking the brunt of the blame. Maybe we should start a new phrase … “Asleep at the wheel politics.” Anyway, if Obama is allowing these kinds politics and McCain is not, the choice is simpler for you isn’t it?

We’re going to have to unify ourselves as a nation and fix this problem together. Then we can hold individuals responsible and accountable for the mess.

I hate the terms, “dirty politics as usual,” and “poll skewing.” It’s sad that we have come to this, in this country. Luckily we, as a nation, are much smarter than we are given credit for, and Tuesday will show this. However, it is unfortunate that we are also fighting an economy for which the current administration is taking the brunt of the blame. Maybe we should start a new phrase … “Asleep at the wheel politics.” Anyway, if Obama is allowing these kinds politics and McCain is not, the choice is simpler for you isn’t it?

We’re going to have to unify ourselves as a nation and fix this problem together. Then we can hold individuals responsible and accountable for the mess.

Since 1984 I’ve been VERY wary of “the only poll that matters is on election day”, but I am starting to wonder to what degree poll results could be manipulated. And a campaign that is willing to turn off credit card checks to allow fraudulent donations? Would they really balk at direct bribery of polling firms?

I’m starting to sound like a truther, sheesh.

The real reason Obama is worried about Tuesday is that in the 37 state Democratic Party Primary contests, he won 18 of 37 elections. He also won 13 of 14 caucuses. His losses included Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio; all battleground states. He has the MSM convincing voters that he can win a national 50 state election when he failed in doing so within his own party’s 37 multi-state contests.

McCain, on the other hand, won Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, during the Republican Primary season. And, the one caucus contest Obama lost; it was Nevada - another battleground state.

Question: What if the NFL’s NFC or AFC sent to the Superbowl a team that went 4-0 pre-season but played 1 under .500 in the regular season? The bookmakers in Vegas would offer laughable odds and the television network carrying the broadcast could not sell a dime’s worth of ad time at real Superbowl rates. Fans would boycott the game and sportswriters would mock the event.

Only the American voter will suspend disbelief and conclude a primary contest equals in value to a caucus contest. No, my friend, a caucus is a caucus and a primary is a primary. Obama is in a 50 state general election and he does poorly in those races. That’s why the campaign is worried and that’s why Obama will lose.

This was funny though:

With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain)

Surely you mean of Biden…