Jim Elbrecht wrote:

In the R's favor-- lots of effort is now going to the senate races
because folks have faced the reality that Mitt just ain't got it. The
down side of that is that lots of R folks will just stay home and hurt
the down-ticket races.


The enthusiasm gap heavily favors the Republicans in every poll I've seen.
Heck, the Republicans are even encouraging supporters to vote absentee at
the first opportunity. That way if the voter gets gets killed by a runaway
cement truck, his vote will still count.

This is in contradistinction to the Democrat's technique of voting by people
who died in the last century...