ELECTION LATEST – AT 8:45 A.M. ET:  We'll be at the two-weeks-to-go mark tomorrow.  We expect new polls later today.  Two late polls have already been published by RealClearPolitics:

In New York, Andrew Cuomo is running away with the governorship.  A New York Times poll has him 35 points ahead of pathetic GOP nominee Carl Paladino, a rich guy with a very big mouth and a very small brain.  A hothead, Paladino has run the worst campaign for a major office that I've ever seen.  Forget him.  He's gone.  And it's sad, because, in this year in particular, the race could have been competitive.

Ah, but in Massachusetts, incompetent Dem Governor Deval Patrick, nicknamed Coupe Deval because of his lavish spending, is, according to Scott Rasmussen, only five points ahead of Republican Charlie Baker in the Scott Brown state.  Five points can be made up in the last two weeks of the campaign, and we're hoping that Republican enthusiasm will cause an upset in this blue state, one of the first to report on election night.

We'll be looking closely at Senate polls in the most competitive states – Illinois, California, Washington, Colorado, and maybe a few more.  The race is far from over.

October 18, 2010