The poll average charts at Pollster and Real Clear Politics both show the swift rise of Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the light of last week’s debate and his move to the center — and President Barack Obama’s breathtakingly swift descent.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.