The demographic shift is irrelevant to them because they are fixing the system so only their supporters can vote. And they will use the military to enforce it. They want us to become like Iraq where Saddam Hussein won 99% of the vote because he was the ONLY one of the ballot. Just ask KKKarl Rove. He still plans to make sure the GOP is the only party in the US. Just ask the Kochs, the Coors, the Anschutzs, the Romneys, and other 1%'ers. They are willing to spend $2 or $3 billion to buy this country, this election and their next candidate so they can make Stalinist rule seem kind.

I believe they think that they have fixed the election and that they will win and they can install whatever of these nut cases they want. And I think it is a serious matter. Otherwise why would the be so bold as to push a ban on birth control, ending Medicare and Social Security, ending health care, increasing taxes on the poor, ending child labor laws, ending lunch breaks, being openly racist, bigoted etc. They have come out on steroids attacking every decent thing in this country.

Heck, in their eyes they "have it in the bag". If you can engineer an economic train wreck and and deliberately "tank" the Socialist Europeans who are now being forced into austerity. They have unemployment rates higher than ours. Spain is over 20%

Look at how they gerrymandered Texas where they put all the Democrats in one or two districts. We are dealing with a bunch of murdering and raping psychopaths in the GOP.

Like Romney won in Maine with voting machines. Ron Paul is claiming a fix.

Because it's their last gasp. Ironically, the very wealthiest of the wealthy are not them. They are not the Koch's or others of their ilk. The very wealthiest seem to realize that to maintain their own pinnacle position requires a certain level of stability that the Koch's and KKKarl Rove's can't provide. "Tanking the economy" was the goal of the juvenile politicos in the repuke party, but that effort is most likely going to be halted by the very top. Something (or someone very powerful) has stoked the kooks into full blown kookdom for all to see, beyond anything ever witnessed, and this does not foretell victory for them, it hastens their end... at least for now.

After 2000 & 2004, I recalled the dire predictions here on DU about what might happen in 2008 (despite the miracle of 2006), many of which never came to pass. And with 2010's low turnout leading to the insanity that we face right now, 2012 will hopefully revive the public to vote in sufficient numbers to overcome whatever shenanigans some may try.

What to keep an eye out for are the congressional races and that would require sufficient GOTV to negate any attempts at any chicanery succeeding. However, the stench of the national races has emboldened the crazies at the state levels (see Hoekstra and the backlash), and chances are that many down-ticket GOP will fail (assuming Democrats are found to run in these seats).