This just in, from a blog named FrankLog: Radicals Penetrate St. Louis Debate

According to an un-named source (gotta love 'em!) inside the Democratic National Committee, the rumor at DNC HQ is that various groups (ostensibly 527 organizations, such as MoveOn, etc.) have instructed their St. Louis-based members to misrepresent themselves as "undecideds", in order to pass the Gallup organization's screen.

The plan for these covert types is to get up, discard their "programmed" questions, and then proceed to ask a different question. I would imagine that they'd be on the order of "When did you stop beating your wife?", so there could be something interesting about this snoozer of a debate after all.

Three or four years ago, when I was still in college, I would have cheered this on, because it's amusing, and bound to be fun. We, of course, would have anticipated this and had a retaliatory (or matching) plan in place. Nowadays, I'm a dour old graduate from law school who grimly advises sticking to the rules, so these guys are bums.

In closing, I'd like to stress that this is a rumor, and is not confirmed material. FrankLog got it from CrushKerry.com, so I'm sort of wondering why a DNC source would talk to these guys. However, the sheer chance of the thing is worth posting, since I'm not a responsible news organization. (I am, however, trying to be an honest broker of information and opinion.)

Tip of the Wisconsin hat to FrankLog.

(I don't mean to suggest that Terry McAuliffe was actually behind this, but I needed a cute title for the post, and I'd rather skewer him with the Democrats' own insult directed towards President Nixon.)

UPDATE: Well, it doesn't look like that happened, or if it did, the results were somewhat subdued. I'll quote Lefty Rosenthal as for my take on the winner: "I have no opinion on that."

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