Greenwald On Tightening

Crooks and Liars: "...(4) While a couple of polls released yesterday reflect what has become the media cliche of the day — 'tightening' — the trend lines for the individuals races, with few exceptions, reflect no such thing. The polling data for the key Senate races have long shown — and continue to show — huge Democratic leads in Ohio and Pennsylvania; marginal though consistent leads in Montana, Rhode Island, Maryland and New Jersey; and tiny, precarious leads in Virginia and Missouri. Not much has changed in that regard for some time. If those leads hold and there are no major upsets either way, Democrats (even if they lose Tennessee) will take over the Senate (a result that is far, far from certain, or even likely, but it is definitely possible, and more to the point, nothing that has occurred over the past few days has changed that fact either way)..."