wombat_socho

That's the conventional wisdom, yeah. In fact, it's more a question of who's better at mobilizing the base and getting out the vote on election day*. This is something the GOP has excelled at over the last eight years, and combined with the Democrats' awesome ability to stick their feet in their mouths, it may just be enough. We'll see how it goes. I'm inclined to wait and see when, how, and what the fat lady sings.

*Unless you're one of those people who think conservatives lie often enough to the Strib's pollers to throw their numbers off and account for the famous "last-minute surge" that inexplicably put Coleman over the top in 2002, Pawlenty in 2004, etc.