My Naivete

I must admit my naiveté.  I did not know the full extent to which this administration was willing to go to get reelected when I wrote 10 Steps to Get Yourself Reelected President if You Are a Democrat.  I have updated the steps based on recent revelations.

12 Steps to Get Yourself Reelected President if You Believe the Ends Justifies the Means to get Reelected

1. Garner a fawning press. 
2. Promise to give away a bunch of “free” stuff.
3. Use the IRS to silence your opposition.
4. Lie about key events and policy initiatives such as Benghazi and Obamacare to keep approval numbers from dropping.
5. Direct the Census Bureau to fudge the unemployment numbers to get them below 8% knowing that no president has gotten reelected with unemployment numbers above 8%.  (The reported unemployment numbers drop from 8.1% to 7.8% one month before the election.)
6. Ensure no voter ID laws are in place prior to the election.
7. Persuade Democratic Governors to establish early voting to maximize chances of voter fraud in your favor.
8. Do everything possible to ensure mail-in ballots from military personnel are not received in time or counted.
9. Use any data base at your disposal to identify likely Democratic voters (such as the NSA Prism data base).
10. Use federally-funded groups such as ACORN and AmeriCorps to get those people registered to vote, and to the polls.  Bribe potential voters with booze, cigarettes, or money if necessary.
11. Target these efforts in the big cities of major swing states (a win in a big city can swing the whole state).  Remove Republican poll watchers from polls if possible as was done in Philadelphia.  (Romney got zero votes in 59 districts in Philadelphia and 9 districts in Cleveland.)
12. Send lawyers to key areas to sue if steps one through nine are unsuccessful.

New polling shows that Romney may have won the election if it were not for the Banana Republic tactics of this administration.