Karl Rove says there are more undecided voters than in any year since 1968.

Jim Geraghty’s Obi Wan Kenobi says to stay calm.

Of course, a McCain victory is still just a better-than-nothing outcome, like getting into a wreck that puts your car in shop for a week versus having it totaled.

Listening to him pander during the debate on Tuesday, you had to wonder if McCain isn’t just a Democrat-lite.

But Democrat-lite beats a socialist. And heck, if McCain wins, we’ll hear a lot more from Sarah Palin. Cheer up.

Then there’s this from Steven Warshawsky at American Thinker:

Ever since I wrote my anti-Obama piece, I have received numerous emails from Republicans and Democrats alike, asking whether I still think Obama will lose the election. Yes, I do. But what about the polls, they ask? The polls show that Obama is winning. No, they don’t, as I will explain.

But let me note, first, that the widespread, and indeed intentional, misreporting about what the polls allegedly show is one of the most frustrating — and ultimately harmful — aspects of the presidential campaign season. Why harmful? Because if the supporters of Barack Obama, which include the mainstream media, most of the intelligentsia, and almost all black Americans, believe that their candidate is “winning” the race, but then he loses on Election Day, they are very likely to conclude that the election was “stolen.” It will be what we saw in 2000, only worse, because of the intense emotional investment that so many people have in Obama’s candidacy. Whether or not, as some irresponsible commentators have suggested, there will be violence in the streets if Obama loses, it will be deeply damaging to the nation’s social fabric for John McCain’s election to be challenged from the start as illegitimate.

Now to the polls. There are three basic reasons to be skeptical about the validity and accuracy of polls: First, there is the well-known problem of bias that results from how polls are worded. Second, the raw data for the polls almost always is “adjusted” by the pollsters to give more weight to the Democratic responses. And third, the results of the polls almost always are within the reported “margin of error.” The first two issues would require a detailed analysis that is beyond the scope of this article. But the third issue clearly proves my point that Obama is not “winning” the race.