BOOM goes The Polling Report [9.14.12]

Three new NBC/Marist polls came out yesterday in Ohio, Virginia and Florida, giving the President 5 point leads in Virginia and Florida and a 7 point lead in Ohio. Mitt Romney must win all three states or there is no conceivable mathematical way he can be elected President. The President can win without these three. And that really is the story of this election. In Mitt Romney's best case scenario where he wins all his swing state targets, his ceiling in the Electoral College is 291. The President's best case scenario is 399 (winning all the usual suspects plus Montana, Arizona, Missouri, Indiana, Georgia and Nebraska's 1 congressional district). Here is the map:

Delaware Political Weekly: Sept. 8-14, 2012

What we learned from the Primary: 1. The Gordon machine was the single most effective game-changer during the primary; 2. For once, Wilmington really made the difference this year; 3. Grassroots campaigns work, and they cost a lot less than the alternative; 4. Jack Markell is in danger of becoming a Drawbridge Democrat; 5. Tons of lit cannot compensate for personal unpopularity; and 6. Primaries are GOOD;

Losing When Only Winning Was Possible

Mitt Romney has had another self-inflicted, tough week/ So as Romney's campaign begins it's Goodbye Tour, we're looking for titles for the upcoming HBO movie about the plummeting 2012 Romney Campaign. We will take the best titles from the comments and vote on them next week.

Thursday Open Thread [9.13.12]

Major Garrett:
"Mitt Romney has picked a big fight fraught with political risks amid an ongoing foreign policy crisis with heartbreaking and murderous consequences for the U.S. diplomatic corps. And by the end of the day on Wednesday he walked straight into a forearm shiver from the commander-in-chief - one that may leave a mark and intensify scrutiny of Romney's foreign policy qualifications."

The Polling Report [9.13.12]

We have a lot of polls, but nothing in a state changing from Romney to Obama or vice versa. Instead, we have a map that is getting darker in some expected sports and lighter in some unexpected spots. Meanwhile, we have a Fox News poll that is most likely being ignored on their own air. Here is the map.

You Ain’t the Cat’s Pajamas

If I learned anything over this primary election, when it comes to politics, know one knows nothing. The more one pretends to know, it becomes apparent that they know very little. When politicians, political Insiders or bloggers start thinking their shit don't smell, it's best they remember the line from Shakespeare's As You Like It:
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I think everyone should read Kavips today.

His piece on the future of New Castle County, with a little recent political history thrown in, is a tour de force and it has performed a miracle: it actually made me feel a little bit better about Tom Gordon. Not enough to vote for him, mind you, but enough to be not apocalytic about what is coming...

Joe Scarborough has The Sadness

Watching Morning Joe this morning, one can only notice that Mitt Romney's campaign has given Joe Scarborough The Sadness. His lips say one thing, but his face says another. Visit…