The 2012 GOP Strategy for the White House
The 2012 GOP Strategy for the White House is to rely on misinformation and insanity. Is the president a Nazi Socialist Muslim who hates America, white people, and the bible, relying on anti-heterosexual and anti-progress strategies in order to undermine our social fabric and destroy our economy? No, but if your only source of news is News Corp subsidiary Fox News, then maybe you would think so. And, as Fox News is so often quick to cite, Fox is the most popular cable news channel, so there are a lot of people who are prone to believe that Obama is not a Wallstreet backed establishmentarian who is just toeing the line of trends in the US Executive Branch, but actually a Marxist seeking reparations for slavery.
It's estimated that Fox has a daily average viewership of 1.8 million nationwide. That's a daily viewership. All they have to do is convince those viewers that this election is an existential crisis, and make them all extremely vocal activists. Compare that to the 1.5 million people that volunteered for Obama's campaign last election... I think it could actually be a close one - a referendum on whether or not there are any moderates left who can make up for the masses of totally disillusioned liberals.
It's estimated that Fox has a daily average viewership of 1.8 million nationwide. That's a daily viewership. All they have to do is convince those viewers that this election is an existential crisis, and make them all extremely vocal activists. Compare that to the 1.5 million people that volunteered for Obama's campaign last election... I think it could actually be a close one - a referendum on whether or not there are any moderates left who can make up for the masses of totally disillusioned liberals.