You know, I didn't willingly choose to insert race as a conscious subtext into this campaign, Anne. I'm not the one who repeatedly sought to turn false representations about the president's Hawaii birth certificate into a phony controversy, or implied in repeated statements that he's "un-American (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)" or sent through the e-mail under the title "This is funny" photoshopped caricatures of Barack Obama as an African witch doctor with a bone through his nose.

But the Republicans did, on all counts, and they did so for a specific reason. Further, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing and why they were doing it. And so it's a given that they're not going to like it when it's thrown right back into their faces.

And honestly, at this point, I couldn't possibly care any less about Zero's self-righteous umbrage and his hamhanded attempts to manufacture a controversy. So, you'll be hearing no channeling of Rick Perry as a mea culpa from me. Sorry.

Your comment was going along just fine, making a credible point, and didn't need any jazzing up for a community that is more or less unanimous - but for a handful - in its agreement that racism sadly still exists.

We get it, Donald - you can stop lecturing us about it.  

I have no doubt you believe what you've posted, but that wasn't the problem: you did what you often do: built your comment around some you tube video you find especially clever, and waited for someone to bite. It worked.  It just looked like you were trolling a message to lure the Slayers and jims out to play.  

but Ohio has never gone for someone who didn't win the popular vote.

You would think that losing the popular vote would make someone lose but we all have recent examples of that not being the case.

Again it depends on where the independents are located. If they are located in places like Utah it's not going to matter.

And then there are the western states like CO and NV that are going to have a say in who is president.

With Romney endorsing only one senate candidate who claims rape pregnancies are "what God intended" hopefully shifts the momentum to Obama even more.

Garbage In = Garbage Out.

Nate has a good record so his results can't be taken lightly.

However the hidden value that is making all these polls bounce is the prediction I've mentioned above.   Turnout.

IN all models they are estimating higher D vs. R ratios like there where in 2008.

I maintain that 2012 is not 2008 and the only question is how much R's will close the gap and will the shift in I's be enough to counter a small or minimal shift.

Two things at play.  How much will I's break for Romney and how many D's vs. R's will show up.

He said it made it so much easier that he didn't have to factor in ex-wives and ex-husbands and step-parents and girlfriends and boyfriends.