Schadenfreude Department

Brad DeLong collects some pre-election gloating by the Romney brigades: WAR ON NATE SILVER: SOUTH OF SILVERGRAD WE COME ACROSS THE SHIVERING, UNARMED REMNANTS OF COLONEL MUSTARD'S FORCES WANDERING THE KALMYK STEPPE BEGGING TO BE FED:

A few favorite excerpts:

NeoConScum | October 28, 2012 at 7:36 pm Michael Barone, nobody’s dummy, is now saying that this may very well be a 1980 type, late in the cycle, ‘landslide’ of the Reagan-Carter kind. My-O-My, how nice it would be to take it so BIG that the expected whiners & shriekers have NO traction for their post-election lies….

Mary Sue | October 28, 2012 at 7:37 pm Watching on Twitter, libs are working overtime to build narrative Romney is not leading national polls and Ohio firewall is insurmountable. Sure they’ve been working this narrative for a while now but today it is just astounding how dedicated they are to resurrect the magical air of inevitability. I am fully convinced some pollsters will go down with the ship. PPP just dumped a load of manure to feed the narrative, good Soros soldiers to the end. This is going to be painful to watch….

I'm going to guess that it was...

JerryB | October 28, 2012 at 7:46 pm Rush has it right. The polls are converging on reality so that on Nov. 7 they can claim competence. This election has been Romney’s for more than 6 months. . .

There is more where those came from.

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