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What A Gloomy GOP Campaign Guru Just Told Me

• http://www.businessinsider.com, James Pethokoukis
 A new Washington Post-ABC News poll has Mitt Romney up by a point over Barack Obama 47% to 46%. (46% is a truly horrible number for an incumbent.) But it is going to take more than a few narrow polls to change what I sense to be the widespread mood here that Romney is very narrowly losing, but the race remains winnable.

So it was with great interest that I listened to the thoughts a longtime, much-respected GOP operative, whom I will nickname the Gloomy Guru. Among GG’s observation:

Romney will win North Carolina Ohio is iffy in GG’s view, though one very smart, very connected Ohio GOPer thinks the state is lost New Mexico is lost Colorado looking good Pennsylvania is fool’s gold, not going to happen

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