Double whammy of bad news for Romney

The news that we may be seeing the beginning of a mass exodus of donors from the Romney campaign comes from a surprising source, Faux News:

The Romney campaign is experiencing what some officials believe could be the beginning of a mass exodus of big money donors….

[A]nother person with direct knowledge of the matter says the trend, though nascent, is more geographically broad based, and reflects an increasing degree of anxiety both with what they believe is the tentative nature of the Romney campaign, and recent poll numbers that show President Obama with a lead, particularly in key battleground states, that some repugican contributors are starting to believe is insurmountable.
“This isn’t just a New York trend,” this person said. “It’s beginning to occur all over the place.”

Then Mitt Romney was hit by a double whammy. Because of massive fraud allegations affecting a repugican donor that was working in at least seven swing states, the repugican cabal is ending (early) voter registration drives in at least five of those states. Bloomberg:

The repugican national cabal ended efforts to sign up new voters before the deadline in key states for the presidential race because of questions raised over registration applications tied to the party.
The repugican cabals in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia — all states that both campaigns view as competitive — fired Glen Allen, Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting, the company in charge of registrations, said Kirsten Kukowski, a spokeswoman for the repugican national cabal. The national committee also canceled its contract with the company, its only vendor signing up new voters, Kukowski said.

Some more background on the problem, that I posted about the other night:

What first appeared to be an isolated problem in one Florida county has now spread statewide, with election officials in at least seven counties informing prosecutors or state election officials about questionable voter registration forms filled out on behalf of the repugican cabal of Florida….
Lux said there have been forms that listed dead people and were either incomplete or illegible. He met with local prosecutors on Friday, but added that his staff was still going through hundreds of forms dropped off by Strategic employees.
Lux, who is a repugican, said he warned local party officials earlier this month when he first learned the company was paying people to register voters.
“I told them ‘This is not going to end well,’” Lux said.

And, as I already noted, the firm was working in at least seven key swing states.