So, has Roveco succeeded in securing their base with the new distractions

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

and talking points?

Buses? Blame game? Scary dark skinned looters?

Do they have 90-100 percent of their Kool-Aid drinkers comfortably, if uneasily, clutching their security blanket of Rush and Hannity lies?

Even if a fifth of their voters abandoned them over this, voting machine issues aside, they'd be through.

Choices:

1. Hardly any Bush voters have or will change their mind even over this mass calamity, even with gas prices, 10,000 dead, obvious neglect and incompetence etc. They are just too emotionally invested in their hero.

2. The issue is evolving, and the outcome is as yet unclear

3. Shrubco and the Repubs are through

4. Other...