Rachel Maddow dropped some knowledge last night. Her and KO were talking about robert gibbs smackdown of Hannity, and moreover general strategy to shut blowhards up. And she said it right, show don't tell.
As a point of reference as to where we are now vs. where we were in 2000, and 2004.
Bickity Bam
You see the difference. Look at it like a Horse race.. Kerry and gore lost ground in the final stretch and could never make it up.
Obama has kept a better lead than Kerry did(gore was getting his ass kicked until he mustered a final run, and while Kerry fell off and ended up in the glue factory, Obama is Still Standing Strong.
This doesn't mean obviously that there isn't still work to be done. It just shows why this time is different.
UPDATE: My photobucket is acting all types of nuts so I'm sorry about the image size. It's a graph from pollster.com showing polls for the 2000, 2004, 2008 election. Obama is blue Kerry is red and Gore is grey.