I was reading Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog a few days ago, as most of us here do, and one particular comment from a reader (Obama supporter) struck me.
There was a comment thread about how, despite state polling in the battlegrounds looking up for Obama, some of those states are, at best, unpredictable (think New Hampshire) and aren't exactly in the bag.
With that in mind, there is a chance, however small it may seem from the state polls, that Romney could pull this off and get to 270. Of course even the thought of that being a possibility scares the living crap out of most of us here.
There's also a chance that Obama could win the electoral college without winning the popular vote, which is not a great scenario either. Can you even IMAGINE how that would play out on Faux news? We'd never hear the end of it.
That's when said comment came in from a reader of Nate's blog:
I'm so scared that Romney could win this thing. I don't know what I would do...
To which I replied....
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