Electoral-vote.com averages all of the major state-by-state polls and produces a daily map of the electoral college.  Today, it looks like this: There’s just no way this holds up until November 4th.  Only two weeks ago, that same map looked this way: Between the two, the polls picked up fallout from the economic crisis, serious doubts about Sarah Palin...

There’s still plenty of time and four debates between now and election day, but it can’t be a bad sign that Barack Obama is ahead in 2004 red states Colorado, Iowa, and New Mexico.  Electoral-vote.com shows an Obama lead in Virginia, but it looks more realistically like a tie.  That state is right on the line.  In 2006, it elected Democrat Jim...