Song Parody...Four AM in Ohio (November 6, 2012)

I give you one last pre-election post….a combined brief Daily Dash with a song parody.  There were, indeed, a slew of new national and swing state polls yesterday, but nothing to shake my predictions. Obama’s national lead grew from 0.8 to 1.1 points.  On the other hand, the GOP will leap all over a slight tightening of swing state polls in Wisconsin, Iowa and Virginia, chalking it up to “Republican Enthusiasm,” that mystical force that appears to magically overcome both the cold, hard facts of the polls as well as the awe-inspiring Obama ground game.

Daily Dash 11/5	Ahead	Margin
National Polls	Obama	1.1
Swing States	Obama	7 of 8
Electoral College	Obama	303-235
Obameter	Obama	5.4
Charisma Factor	Romney	-0.6
Senate	Dems	53-47
House	Repubs	241-194

But Obama still has the lead in 7 out of the 8 swing states, and the Big Three for him – Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada – remain steady at 3-point-plus leads.  In those three states, I count 26 polls in the last 10 days or so, and Obama was ahead in 21 of them with 4 ties.  Romney won exactly 1 of those 26 polls.  And, again, those three states have 34 electoral votes, and when you add these to Obama’s “solid” base of 237, that gives him 271 – enough to win.  (Plus he’s ahead in Virginia, New Hampshire, Iowa and Colorado.)

So…on to Election Night!  It was inevitable, I think, that this particular song parody would be my final one…of course it is based on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s classic “Ohio.”  I call this one….”Four AM in Ohio”….

Obama or Romney coming

We’re finally gonna know

Get set for some late night summing

Four AM in Ohio

Gotta countdown to it

Phone banks are tracking us down

Sick of it long long ago

What if we watch it and

It’s a dead heat all around?

Time for the Jim Baker show?

Gotta countdown to it

Swing states will finally ground

Lawyers line up, recounts grow

What if Wolf calls it and

Then they switch it around?

How can you sleep if you don’t know?

Obama or Romney coming

We’re finally gonna know

Get set for some late night summing

Four AM in Ohio
Four AM in Ohio

Four AM in Ohio

(How many more?)

Four AM in Ohio

(Five?)

Four AM in Ohio

(Six?)

Four AM in Ohio

(Chadds?)

Four AM in Ohio

(The Courts?)

Four AM in Ohio