FORTY MINUTES

" Tick, tick , tick...."

Louder and louder , as those pages fly off his " Mormon fact of the day " calender.

Our Mitt Romney is in full out panic mode. That " born on third base, thinks he hit a triple " facade, starting to ever so slightly crumble.....

The Golden Child at night - Governor Romney and tonight's debate.

This is not how it was supposed to be. Nope, things were supposed to be much much easier for the pride of _______.. George Bush took the US economy on a suicide nose dive ala Slim Pickens - with Barack Obama left to clean up the mess. How could MItt possibly not been seen as the WHITE Knight coming to save the world.

"This will be easy", you know he thought that - because everything had been easy. The path to the White House ( and the White Horse ) were clearly marked, and he did everything right ....... then why? WHY ?! have things gone so horribly wrong ?

Nate Silver's poll of polls
the day of the debate.

This is his " if the election were held today " chart.. the one for November 6th is different but with President Obama still dominating the electoral college. IT WILL NOT BE THIS MUCH OF A RUN AWAY -
So here we are, an hour or so before the most important 40 min of Mitt Romney's life .Can he rise to the occasion ? Can he pull together all the Mitt Romneys floating around out there into one coherent candidate ?
 I will come back to this post for my reaction .

( and my drink word - IF I were drinking is FREEDOM )