For the GOP, it has come down to two final moves in their midterm endgame.

This:

G.O.P. Moves Fast to Reignite Issue of Gay Marriage

And this:

Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters

That's it, folks.  It is about beating up on "the gays", and scaring off "the blacks".  That's all they have left.  And this twin movement cannot be underestimated.

The GOP cannot get any independents to the polls for them anymore.  They stopped representing them, oh, about a week into Bush's first term.  They got them back after 9/11, and for Bush's re-election, but now, Fear Factor is over.  The indies hate the ideologues, and that means they hate the current Republican Party.

The GOP can rely on its religious base to turn out at this point.  And up until Wednesday's ruling in New Jersey on statewide gay marriage rights, that base wasn't likely to turn out, anyhow.  Now, it's anyone's guess.  But don't doubt the GOP isn't squeezing out every drop regarding "the radical homosexual agenda".

The GOP can also rely on dissuading African-Americans from voting.  They will do it by distributing pamphlets in black neighborhoods telling voters with unpaid parking tickets they will be arrested for illegally voting, do the same to said neighborhoods explaining that Election Day is Tuesday for Republicans, Wednesday for Democrats, purge thousands of legitimate black voters from the voting rolls, and on, and on, and on. 

And when I say "they will do this", I mean, they will do this.  They will do every one of the above, and much, much more.  They are terrified of losing power, and they feel the reckoning coming. 

These are the same people who had no problem taking control of a country that voted for someone else, no problem taking us to war based on nothing but lies, no problem outing a CIA agent who disagreed with those war plans, no problem comparing a triple-amputee vet to Osama in Laden, and no problem bankrupting our nation's treasury. 

Do we really think a few million black voters give these kinds of people pause?