"Obama's Lead Is Starting to Look Insurmountable" by Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

[applegrove]

Obama's Lead Is Starting to Look Insurmountable

By Kevin Drum at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/09/obamas-lead-starting-look-insurmountable

"SNIP..................................................

■Obama is currently up by 3.7 percent. No candidate in the past 50 years has lost a lead that big.

■No candidate with more than 47 percent of the vote in late September has ever lost. Obama is currently at 48.3 percent.

■Big changes in the final month aren't impossible, but they've gotten rarer in the past 20 years.

■It's not true that undecided voters tend to break for the challenger in the last few weeks of a race.

................................................SNIP"

[Siwsan]

1. I want Willard to be utterly and completely humiliated. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person.

Even so, I want him to have release a concession statement instead of giving a concession speech because he's just so humiliated that he can't even face the public.

[speedoo]

2. Thanks for correctly sourcing that "insurmountable" comment.

There was another post that inaccurately attributed it to Nate Silver, and many DUers were mislead, as a result.

[pscot]

3. No lead is safe

where Republicans control the counting.