This makes no sense, possibly the intentional faking to make him look bad does, but it still seems silly. No way a new poli account is going to come close to Obamas, the timing makes it near impossible. One is old and was benefited by the first round of suggested users, the other is near crippled by the now impossible. Not that I like politics but this is so odd to me for some reason it just strikes me as silly no matter how or why it is happening.
All the accounts I checked (ok two) look like they're part of a spam ring.
Sounds like the new normal for twitter. I keep seeing 'get more real followers' ads all over these days. They promise 1000s of them all 'real' but I would be willing to bet, they are all bots.