Allow me to vent. I am sitting here watching David Gregory on MSNBC incessantly repeat that "the race is tied". Just a few mouse clicks away and I can see Sam Wang's Princeton Election Consortium Report as giving Obama a 98% chance of winning; I can click to Nate Silver's 538 blog and see an 85% chance of reelection.
This race is NOT tied. We elect presidents by the electoral college, and unless, as Sam Wang argues, all the state polls are biased statistically against Romney, this race is OVER. Wang sees an Obama electoral college win of 319-219 and Silver has a 307-231 Obama advantage.
On Gregory's Meet the Press panel, he has the arrogant conservative Morning Joe Scarborough (ask his co-host Mika Brzezinski) sitting there, as well as GOP operative Mike Murphy, with Cory Booker as the lone Obama supporter and then he brings on the deceitful Eric Cantor, whose state of Virginia will narrowly go to Obama on Tuesday. Tom Brokaw sits there to mumble that he agrees with Scarborough that the race is tied, and of course there is NO mention at that point about Romney-Ryan's near-impossible path to victory in the only race that matters, the Electoral College. Chuck Todd comes on late to make the case that both candidates have credible routes to victory. But for Romney, it means taking Pennsylvania where Romney has never been ahead or Ohio where he appears to be trailing by 3 to 6 points and has not led there.
Brokaw then opines that there has been "no sign" anywhere of bipartisanship in this campaign, fully ignoring the Chris Christie-Obama tour of New Jersey this week, and as well as the endorsement by Mayor Bloomberg.
Of course, they chime in at the end with the President 's First Debate, and no mention that Romney did not parlay that into a lead, and that the "momentum" they claimed lasted but a week or two.
Tied race? No, not at all. Students in the future will look at the 70 to 100 point Obama electoral college margin and never imagine that astute observers would call this a "tie" just two days before voting day.
1:11 PM PT: ALEX WAGNER SHOWS NATE SILVER'S PREDICTION. On "Last Word" fill-in host Alex Wagner flashes on the screen Nate's 307-231 Obama lead--and terms the Christie-Obama bipartisan tour of NJ as a "race shaper". She follows up with a Biden interview done by Tweetie Matthews on the Romney Jeep to China ad.Tweetie concludes that Romney is losing. Alex calls the Romney ad a "crass estimation of the American voter". Go Alex! A breath of fresh air, after the stink left by Gregory & company.