John Hinderaker's confidence that Romney is on the cusp of victory, described by me here, has waned. His ruddiness was in the afterglow of having attended a Romney fund raiser, where the buzz was that the race in Minnesota was a toss up. This was a somewhat different take from that of, say, Nate Silver, whose map shows Minnesota the deepest shade of blue and Obama's most likely electoral vote total in the low 300s.
I don't know what's going to happen and it's clear that Mercurial John doesn't, either. Yesterday, he asked "Why is the election close?" and acknowledged, in his answer, that Obama could win. It appears Obama got a "bounce" from the DNC and it has apparently wiped out the fuzzy feeling John had after trading a load of cash for the chance to shake Romney's hand and hear a little Republican boilerplate on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
Why might Obama win, according to John? It's because the country is too far gone.
With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits, millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on top of that living on entitlement programs--not to mention enormous numbers of public employees--we may have gotten to the point where the government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real economy.
I'm not sure whether this tipping point was reached after John attended the Romney fund raiser or after the Republicans shellacked the Dems in the last midterm election. It's obvious that it was still possible for Republicans to win elections in 2010, when they took control of the House and wiped out the Dem's supermajority in the Senate. Maybe they should take some of the blame for the way in which the ragged and misbegotten wards of Big Government are now calling the shots in this formerly great land!
