[goldstategop]

Charlie Cook’s info is dated - every one agrees FL, NC, VA, CO are now solid Romney states.

He’ll probably win OH, WI and IA as well.

Its not going to be close at all.

Sorry, Charlie - you’re dead wrong!

[TheRhinelander]

Not really. It’s going to be a landslide. Romney is already ahead of where Reagan was in 1980. Mitt would have to praise Hitler to lose this at this point.

[NewJerseyGOP]

President Obama won the second debate

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No, he didn’t. Next...

[kabar]

The article was written on October 11th. It is crap.

[kevao]

Charlie Cook wrote this article to try to convince himself as much as anyone else that his Obamessiah still has hope. Fail.

[Hildy]

Every election they say this.. But it never happens.

[cardinal4]

Nope, Romney by a landslide..

[paul51]

The race seems destined to be a close one

a good political outcome predictor you are not

[Nifster]

Charlie’s drinking again....

[Pollster1]

I don't know why people find a popular/electoral split disturbing. In the 1997 World Series, Cleveland won games two, four, and six by 5, 7, and 3 points respectively. Florida won games one, three, five, and seven by 3, 3, 1, and 1 points respectively. Florida appropriately won the Series because they won more games than Cleveland, even though Cleveland outscored Florida by 44 to 37 overall. Games and elections have rules, and no sensible person would argue with an outcome that follows the rules.

Unfortunately, liberals are neither sensible nor decent; they want the rules rewritten after the fact. I expect them to riot if they win the popular vote but lose the election (they'll riot no matter what, but that excuse will be like the trashy movie in Libya, their justification for the violence that thugs initiate simply because they are thugs). Conversely, if they lose the popular vote but win the election, the split outcome will not concern them at all - hypocrites. Personally, I find the popular vote an interesting footnote to history, but I do not want that statistic considered at all in deciding the election.

[jmaroneps37]

Charlie stop smoking that stuff! You are making a fool of yourself.

[catfish1957]

More and more evidence that the looney left is giving up on winning the popular vote. An EV rabbit out of the hat trick is about all they have left.

[Jabba the Nutt]

All these stories, ie New Hampshire important, tight race, and this one are all trying to re-inflate the popped balloon. The preference cascade is just starting to roll. The wave is building, water's coming through the dam, bandwagon is rolling down hill, pick your metaphor, IT AIN'T GONNA BE CLOSE.

My long prediction is that Obama will be lucky to get 40%.