What everyone seems to be missing, is that all these false registrations swell the apparent ranks of the Dem Party. Of course, that too-clever-by-half Rush Limbaugh did teh same thing by telling Pubs to register as Dems. Here’s the real payoff.
ZPolls are weighted based on registration. The more Dems, the more the polls take that into account, and adjust the numbers. Four things then happen:
1) Pub voters get discouraged. They give up on the Prez race, and often don’t go vote as a result as it’s seen as pointless. Worst case, their candidate loses, because they failed to cast the vote that would’ve won it for their guy;
2) The down-ballot races also suffer from lack of turnout (Governors, Senators, Congressmen, Legislators, dog-catchers, whatever.);
3) The get out the vote effort slows, and they start to lose the ground game;
4) Donations, the all-important moey flow, dries up. After all, why just throw away your money? Your guy’s losing, and the other guy will just steal the elections anyway.
Voter apathy is the real goal. Break the other guy’s supporters’ morale. The number registered has that effect. Even now, Gallup has had to offer two methods of weighting of their polls, because the old model may not be reliable with these radical new numbers. They have no good baseline anymore, because the nature of the election has, at least superficially, grossly changed.
