is looking at the different routes to victory with the two main swing states in one column or the other, that being ohio and florida and how the other swing states may be able to there may be a path without one of their swing states for mitt romney. ohio, the depression over ohio in the romney camp is real and they re closely watching it and they have reason to be very concerned about it. ken, i think the story here is broader at least to me than just a polling bump for obama out of the convention. i think there s a bigger story here that really obama has been winning this race basically the whole way, since romney emerged from the republican primaries last spring. i don t know if we can see this, but i ll describe it. we have the polling trend that real clear politics puts together. they average together day to day every poll out there. it eliminates the noise with one outlier. going back to april, obama has clearly been ahead one, two, three, four points except for the start of t
was the possibility of taking bin laden out. justice was done. and i think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on american soil didn t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined. joining me now is eugene robinson a brighter for the washington post and an mbz political analyst. great to be here, lawrence. gene, is it your sense that this is a minor polling bump for the president or has something fundamentally changed in the political landscape? i go with option b. i think this is a fundamental change. the numbers will go up. they ll go down. but i think there has been a fundamental change in the way a lot of people see president obama. you saw that kind of steeliness. there s a little bit of clint eastwood in that 60 minutes
thing i didn t lose sleep over was the possibility of taking bin laden out. justice was done. and i think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on american soil didn t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined. joining me now is eugene robinson a brighter for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. great to be here, lawrence. gene, is it your sense that this is a minor polling bump for the president or has something fundamentally changed in the political landscape? i go with option b. i think this is a fundamental change. the numbers will go up. they ll go down. but i think there has been a fundamental change in the way a lot of people see president obama. you saw that kind of steeliness. there s a little bit of clint
would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on american soil didn t deserve what he got needs to have their head examined. joining me now is eugene robinson a writer for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. great to be here, lawrence. gene, is it your sense that this is a minor polling bump for the president or has something fundamentally changed in the political landscape? i go with option b. i think this is a fundamental change. the numbers will go up. they ll go down. but i think there has been a fundamental change in the way a lot of people see president obama.