Here’s something you may not know from reading the political press, says Jonathan Chait at New York: President Obama is winning, Mitt Romney’s rise in the polls stopped two weeks ago, and Team Romney’s “downright giddy” claim of election-winning momentum “is a bluff.” Of course, conservatives don’t agree. But according to Chait and fellow liberals, Team Romney has cleverly employed a few head-fakes about leaving battleground states supposedly in the bag, vague talk of expanding the map, and lots of bluster about inevitable victory. Indeed, “Romney is carefully attempting to project an atmosphere of momentum, in hopes of winning positive media coverage and, thus, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.” And it might be working. With the national polls tied and Obama enjoying a clear advantage in the Electoral College math, Romney and his allies seem to be successfully “suckering the press corps with a confidence game.” Is Romney’s momentum a clever ruse?

via Mitt Romney's momentum: An illusion conjured by his campaign? – The Week.