J. J's Fourth Rule of Elections: Read the current polling before commenting on it.
Px's firtst rule of elections: follow your own goddamn rules if you want any of us to take you seriously.
Let me see if I can explain this to you Lyndon.
Late August, Rasmussen had Akin down by 10. In September, Rasmussen had him down by 6. That means that Akin is "closing." See how that works?
All of that (including a Chilenski poll, that I don't really trust) is posted on the polling section that I previously linked. If you click the link, you can read it for yourself. You have have to move that little arrow over the link and click.
If you do that, you will notice that MO is now gray. That is the color of a toss up; that means MO is closer (even though that is partly based on a poll I don't really trust). I didn't change the color; I didn't take the poll.
I was, in fact, rather surprised it was closing (and I don't trust that one poll). Still, I looked at it, since when I first looked at the map, it lighter than the other states a few day ago. I was very much surprised when someone questioned that the race was closing when the data said it was closing.