Last night was a wake up call, of sorts.

Not a loud one, though.

Obama is still ahead in every key measure, still have the advantage in all the must-win states, still has the better (and smarter and faster) campaign.

But just a reminder that it is still close. That it could all go the other way. That a 66.7% chance of winning (just tossing that out as a likely sounding number – last time I checked, Nate Silver was saying something like 80%) is not 100% or even 95%. If Obama were to lose, it would be a surprise, but historians wouldn’t go back and say, ‘no one could have predicted that.’

So, a reminder of sorts. Fat ladies and singing and all that.