Morning Joe 11/6/2012 -- Election time, y'all

The first part of Morning Joe was a reminder from Obama supporters that Obama is favored to win and that Romney has lost all his mojo. When Hurricane Sandy came along and Obama took a flight to NJ to look at the devastion with Chris Christie, well this changed the whole race, knocked Romney out and placed Obama in the winner's seat. That's the narrative, and the left loves its narratives. Narratives have replaced reality and facts, like the fact that Romney is drawing huge crowds, and like the fact that even with the polls weighted in favor of Democrats Romney is showing tied within the margin of error, and the fact that Romney is showing up winning in some polls, and the fact that Obama went directly to campaigning again after his Christie photo-op and the devastated region has been ignored for the most part by FEMA. But nevermind all that because the Left has a narrative.

I think the Left is truly worried, and this is why they are spouting such exaggerated propaganda. The Left's only hope is that they can discourage the Right from voting by giving the impression it's all over. Moderates like Joe Scarborough are also silently wishing for Obama to win, because they feel the GOP slipping away from them. The moderates thought that Romney would be destroyed, but now they fear he can win -- some are flip-flopping and jumping on the Romney wagon, but most are passive-aggressive, not sure how to react. The Old Republican Party is on the way out, and a new party, led by Romney and Ryan, is on the way in. Neither the Left nor the GOP moderates like this turn of events, but today they will have to live with it. Romney will roll across the country and win by a comfortable margin, regardless of Leftist narratives and moderate mealy-mouthing, and regardless of all the faux-statistics. The American people are not a bunch of crunched numbers in a stats model -- they are living, breathing voters who want to go in a much different direction. Statism and progressivism take a hit today.

The art of prognostication is lost

Pundits in the political realm have no skills of prognostication-- all they can do is select the daily polls which conform to their party's talking points. Those, though, who haven't completely lost the ability to reason and look objectively at different reports, plus use what they hear on a daily basis and understand regarding human nature to put 2 and 2 together, can predict that Obama is toast in November.

If we listen to partisan hacks who act as pundits, we'd believe that certain groups of people are totally different than the ordinary people we talk to and know in our region of the country. The fact is that most Americans have pretty much the same economic interests, and economics will determine who wins. Special interest groups have their special concerns, but these groups are losing influence as economic concerns take center stage. Most Americans realize we have to stop government control of the economy. Even people who accept certain government interventions as necessary now say that government has gone too far and that the interventions have created economic malaise and unemployment.

Even independents who personally like Obama realize he's not the person for the job, that his political philosophy is bad for economic growth. Voters will come out of the woodwork to vote for Romney, even if they keep their votes a secret, and Obama will lose by a large margin. I don't have a poll to back this up, but, so what -- I'll take a chance and make a prediction.