We have a horrible history of voter suppression in this country, and we must opposed that. But the reality is that the people they are targeting in PA are relatively unlikely to vote in any case. In other words, the numbers are probably overstated. When we say that as many as 750,000 might be affected, this probably translates to a distortion of 50,000 votes.
That is terrible. There shouldn't be ANY distortion. But my point is that they are pulling out because even fraud on the scale of 50,000 votes will not save them in PA.
I do seriously question their tactics. They have such a huge imbalance in money, I don't see where they gain an advantage by putting more of it in a smaller number of states. There comes a point where there is so much money going into advertising in, say , Virginia that another 10 million just won't help. It might even hurt if people get sick of seeing Romney's face.
What they may be doing is shifting from PA to Michigan. They had pretty much written Michigan off. But if they see Florida doing South of then, their only path to victory is to win PA, MI, or NH and sweep everything else. This may be a tactical decision that they can't win PA, but they think they might still have a shot at MI. Let's see if they ramp up the ad spend and campaign appearances in MI.
From here on out, it is all tactical.
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