Pre-election psy ops begin

  It's common knowledge among politicos that you don't let the opposition see your hand. Politics is more a game than anything else, particularly in a high profile world that evaluates every move politicians make.
  Now that Obama's numbers have sunk so low that he is entering dangerous territory and now that we're less than a year away from the election, liberals have begun planting more stories that they aren't discouraged at all, that Obama is magnificent and how confident they are that Obama will stomp the Republican opponent, whoever that might be.
  This is political psy ops, described by Wikipedia here:

Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOP), have been known by many other names or terms, including Psy Ops, Political Warfare, “Hearts and Minds,” and Propaganda.^[1] Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives,reasoning, or behavior. It is used to induce confessions or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives, and are sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics. Target audiences can be governments,organizations, groups, and individuals. 

  Stories are planted; posters go online to "concern troll" conservative websites to plant dissent and uncertainty among the residents. A pretty good description of trolls is here.
  Here's an early psy ops story from Yahoo about how all Democrats love Obama. This story and its equivalent are making the rounds today:

"He has to be seen as a champion for the average person," said George Nee, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO. "I think that's where his heart is — that's what he believes — but he's been too tentative in showing it. I guess in the labor movement, we come from the perspective that we've got to know where you are." 

Rob Tully, a former Iowa Democratic party chairman who supported John Edwards in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, said that last summer many of his party allies shared his sense of frustration that Obama "was not engaging in the fight" with Republicans. But he said Obama's more populist tone and attention to bread-and-butter issues for middle-class voters has resonated with him. 

"I was frustrated with him but I have come full circle, back to the fold," Tully said.

  Does anyone seriously believe that Obama has changed his tone? That he was ever anything but divisive? That he's been tentative?
  As if one speech were enough to nullify the last three years, right on time the Dems trot out their support and the media comply by spreading it far and wide:

"He didn't have his voice and we didn't have our voice," said David Leland, an attorney in Columbus, Ohio, and former state party chairman. "But now he has successfully turned that particular corner and most people are much more enthusiastic and much more fired up about it."

  He didn't have his voice? He's turned a corner?
  One speech did all that, regardless unemployment and a really stinky economy.