Don't Panic

The MSM has been reporting for the past few days about the bump Obama received after the DNC and how polls overall have shown him breaking away from Mitt Romney.  But fear not:

As Republicans have gotten nervous over screaming poll headlines in recent days, there have been a lot of references to polls in prior elections that turned out to be wildly off-base. Carter led Reagan for much of the 1980 campaign; Mondale led Reagan at one time in 1984; and Michael Dukakis–remember him?–had a 17-point lead over George H. W. Bush after the Democratic convention in 1988. Those elections were three of the biggest Republican landslides in history. (I don’t think George McGovern ever led Richard Nixon.)

It's amazing to think that Dukakis at one point in time had that large a lead on 41.   And it's also a bad sign for Obama when the latest CNN poll oversampled Democrats by a margin of 12 percent and shows him up only by 8%.