Atticus Flinched

I am starting to feel like agent Smith in the last Matrix movie: "I saw this, you were there...and I said something??".
By any reasonable viewing of this election cycle, at this stage, Romney / Ryan shouldn't just be behind, they should be politically dead.
His own stupid and or lunatic opponents in the primaries exposed him repeatedly.
When he emerged from the world’s tallest midget contest, he embarked on what will be remembered by historians as the single most stumbling, contradictory filled, mistake prone Presidential campaign in modern times.
 It seemed at times as if he were trying to wear down the media and the electorate with cognitive dissonance. Walking back entire policy positions in a shortening spiral, culminating in actual paragraphs and sentences which took opposing positions.
His own surrogates must be exhausted from trying to articulate a single coherent thought from anything he has ever uttered.
On the other side, Obama and his team have been as consistent as is possible for a modern President. He has taken everything they have thrown at him, and still managed to somehow eke out an economic recovery from the abysmal state it had been flogged in to over the previous eight years.
His deft nuanced foreign policy has elevated us from the most hated country on earth, to once again being perceived in most quarters as the champion of the values put forth at our founding.
As a politician, he is articulate, cool, unflappable and as knowledgeable on any and all issues as any President in my lifetime.
Why then is this race looking like it is?
If there is not some major poll movement in the President's direction in the next few days....somebody should call the worlds biggest instance of "Shenanigans !". ......or we really are living in the fucking Matrix... 

P.S. forgot to mention this:

 "[I]t's widely reported that drones are being used in drone strikes," - Mitt Romney

 "My cats breath smells like cat food"- Ralph Wigum

 Really America? Really?