What appeared to be a resurgence by Mitt Romney seems to have been muted by Sandy. Gallup now has the two tied, and state polling data suggests Obama will slightly edge out Romney in pivotal states such as Ohio and Virginia.

Right now I'm going to say the media seems to be creating the false perception of a "close race" to keep people watching and are basically struggling to remain relevant against a population turning increasingly to the Internet and mobile devices for their news. I believe in 4 years, that the campaigns will be fought with streaming Internet advertisements and unsolicited text messages rather than with cable TV ads. It's all about to change.

Final popular vote:

Obama/Biden: 50.3%
Romney/Ryan: 48.6%
Independents: 1.1%

I predict voter turnout will be somewhere around 53% nationally with more people having voted total in 2008, and that the decisive factor for why Obama wins will be a stronger than expected Democratic turnout among key demographic groups such as Hispanics and Blacks. I consistently see Hispanics being undersampled in most national polls, and Gallup seems to have corrected this now.

Republicans will react to this election with genuine shock, as Fox News and Romney's campaign are telling them that Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and other states are "in play" despite the fact that there is absolutely no mathematical evidence to concur with this.

Naturally this entire prediction could be worthless if the state polls are somehow all biased, but failing that I strongly believe that Mitt Romney has almost no credible path to 270 electoral votes.