Not so, what SHOULD happen in any sane universe is that Obama should be down by 15%. But, he's got that hypnosis hopey changey thing, so he should be down by about 8%.
And ... that's exactly where all the polls are really saying he is.
What's happening today is not an exception, as the media will say tonight and tomorrow. The exception is the polls and the media themselves.
There should be comfort in knowing that this was never close ... because that's how a sane universe would behave. The real news is that it always was being sane.
Tomorrow, the media will tell is it's been a historic last minute surge, or a historic example of the polls missing the qualitative.
No. Sure the first debate helped, and I happen to like Romney a lot and always did, but even McCain could have shown up in debate #1 and puked down his shirt and swung 5% his way. Americans just needed an alternative who breathed.
Nothing exceptional is happening. What was exceptional was the propaganda.
The bonus is that we're actually getting a really good president out of deal.
Boy, I surely hope you are right. I wish I could be as calm as you apparently are. Frankly I am a nervous wreck. I keep going over it in my head: fewer people voting for BHO this time (check), more people voting Republican this time (check), Independents breaking big for RR (check). How can we lose? Then I read stories on here about how some volunteer helped Carter win Philly in 1976 with blatant and absurd fraud and about the GOP poll watchers begin thrown out and I get nervous again...
LOLs!!! Nailed it!