Yes, yes, it's not over until it's over and the fat lady yodels because we don't want to be this guy.

But being the Reality Based Community, the fact that we have to work hard all the way through Election Day doesn't prevent us from noting that yes, we're kind of kicking their butts.

Mitt Romney is a disaster. He's the first Republican nominee in modern history to have higher negatives than positives (not even Bob Dole had that distinction). His every interaction with regular Americans (and heads of state, for that matter) has ended in an insult. He was a bully when he was younger, and he's a bully now. Except that instead of shearing off people's wrong-sized hair, he fires them. He speaks weird.

Pres. Barack Obama leads in Electoral College. Obama has opened up a four-point lead in the national polling, omitting Rasmussen (even though Rasmussen itself is now showing Obama ahead)