I've seen some recent GOP mass email pieces, each saying how this or that candidate is plunging in polls suddenly following an onslaught of Obama or Obama-orthodox advertising.

 

For a GOP candidate to have BEEN high in polls, it must be presumed they took the Tea Party line as even Boehner is as big a fan of Socialism now as is Scalia and anyone in any USA office...the official acts supercede all bloviations and finger-pointings or claims of some "devil" making them do whatever.

 

Thus, if a given population's opinion changes because the orthodoxy against which their candidate campaigns just heaps poop on their candidate, no one can overcome the density of skull which can't see the opposition has no offer to change anything they or theirs do...they're just calling cooties on a critic, as usual.

 

On the other hand, if the population isn't that "dense" and STILL shies away upon cootie-calling, well, Benjamin Franklin kind of indicated those who aren't that interested in free speech or otherwise will not long keep it.

 

Even I don't care about culture-vultures anymore (those who insist keeping their own desire for status quo...only with THEM in office...quiet, and instead counter-camapigming against name-callings, is THE way to "keep people happy for now"); so, kudos to Team Obama for reaping success over everyday reality.