[jjsheridan5]

I'm really not sure what to tell you. These are mostly all conservatives you listed and in a close race, it is to be expected they will say they think Romney will win ...

Except, none of them (add George Will to the list) have a history of doing what you describe. They have a reasonable record of accuracy (save Dick Morris, who is prone to sitting on the flimsiest of branches), and are more than willing to call a close election "close", or a losing election "dire". So your explanation ... I just don't see where it could be coming from. Why would they not do what they have done in the past ... call the election close, and, if anything, express extreme caution? Why are they suddenly changing their m.o., and risking their hard-won reputation, to boot?

[Longbow1969]

I don’t know jjsheridan5. Maybe they are correct and I am wrong. I can just guess that many on the conservative side are going to default to the Republican candidate. For some of the right of center pundits like Rove, Romney was the their guy - the establishment moderate, the one they told us could win. I can’t know their motivations for sure, all I can tell you is their predictions are based on pretty thin gruel.

We will see. It’s not like I claim to be 100% sure I am right. I am simply making a prediction which I think is fairly mainstream. Last I checked folks like Sabato, Cook, etc, concur with my view of how things will shake out.