Stephan:   The decision by the Right to so blatantly favor the one per cent, is either the great political move of the generation, or we are going to have Goldwater-Johnson 1964, which forced the Republican Party to reinvent itself. All the polls I see suggest a tight race, but it is hard for me to accept this with any of the candidates still competing. Theocratic Rightists constitute about about 15 per cent of the electorate, are reliably Republican, and vote in primaries. It's easy to see how this skews primary voting.. But I think it is a miscalculation to think independents will go along, and they are the key to a tight race. If one looks at the Komen-Planned Parenthood embarrassment, the transvaginal debacle in Virginia, even the personhood amendment failure in Mississippi, it seems to me voters are signalling the Right's social value policies are not acceptable. The same is true for the attack on labor unions, and hourly wage workers, as witnessed by what is happening in Wisconsin. Yet the Right continues to pursue its priorities in the face of those rejections. Why? One would think there would be course corrections. Yet one thing follows another as this story describes. Here's something to think about: the development of a parallel universe media network has effectively produced a large mass of willfully ignorant people. And the small group of people who created and controlled that media made millions in the process of creating this parallel world. For the power it purchased it was a cheap investment with a great payoff.