The coup will not be frontal.
Cheney's Sleeper Cells <
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1118-23.htm > in the Federal Bureaucratic Agencies (not just CIA/DIA/NSA/DOD but FDA, EPA, State Department, Federal Judiciary, etc.) include career & lifetime appointments: The Neocons are not going ANYWHERE.
The Neocons are perfectly capable of using Diebold not to WIN elections but to SET UP the Patsy President of their choosing.
In this case, I suspect we will see:
(1) The Economic Scapegoat President, 2008-2012
(2) The Patsy Democratic President, 2012-2015
The Chess game is wide and the coup is long and slow-motion, as Al Gore has called it. As Naomi Wolf has noted, the patina of democracy and legal codification of the coup is being put in place, with the help of Pelosi's Democrats & the DLC.
The coup will be a Lone Gunman "Al Qaeda Sympathizer" crashing a plane into Congress when only Democrats are present, wiping out the national party at a moment when the Democratic President is weakest and under siege from political scandal. Or some such scenario. It won't be an unpopular Republican clinging to power.