all right? gallup says that romney is up by three. "investors business daily" says, no, no, no, it's obama who's up by three. okay, rand says it's obama who's up by four. oh, yeah? rasmussen it's romney who's up by four. reuters say it's romney who's up by one, upi says, no, it's obama who's up by two. and ppp just cuts right to the chase and say, no, it's a tie. and presumably they all mutter and admit, okay, yeah, it's a tie. it's a tie right now. but running for president is not a national race. it is not this country who gets to decide who the next president is. it is this country. it is this tiny conglomeration of relatively sparsely populated state. nationally, it looks like a tie. and the battleground states are all still being called battleground states, because it is very close in those states. but we are now getting close enough to election day, we now have polling on who people say