1. The polls today a VERY slight movement back toward Obama and a TIE overall by any reasonable reading. Meanwhile, it’s true enough that Romney has hope in all the battleground states, but he’s slightly behind in most of them. Intrade remains astute in the suggestion that Obama has very slightly less than two chances out of three of winning in the electoral college, although the popular vote is anyone’s guess. There won’t be much movement, it seems to me, between today and election day, but any movement for any reason is very signficant.
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