As I write this VA is blue, NC is teetering, IN and MO are within a few points and TEXAS is in single digits.
Hillary Clinton never would have even had an office in any of those states, let alone a lead in the polls. I’m not counting chickens because it can still be stolen through Republican crimes and dirty tricks – however, I think Obama has utterly demolished the arguments of the Democratic “win by one vote in the electoral college” theorists like Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Terry McAuliffe.
Update: John McCain is pulling out of Michigan.
John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play.
McCain will go off TV in Michigan, stop dropping mail there and send most of his staff to more competitive states, including Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida. Wisconsin went for Kerry in 2004, Ohio and Florida for Bush.