Mitt Romney has had another bad polling day and the writing may be on the way in some respects. But more importantly, Mitt Romney finally came full circle with the racist code by implying that President Obama is about to get us with the “revenge” word. He knew perfectly well that the president was only referring to the best revenge against the bad policies Romney is spouting is to get out to vote. It’s just that simple, but the racist dog whistle is the preferable alternative. It plays right into Romney’s scare tactics. He is also reportedly quietly courting Glenn Beck.  Ann Romney has repeatedly said the president wasn’t a grown up and his surrogates have called President Obama every name in the book, short of the n-word.

Well, the best revenge the Obama campaign has are the recent polling results that show the president has closed a four point gap from early October when his lackluster performance during the first presidential debate in Denver, CO, shocked many. President Obama’s Midwest firewall is holding and he continues to lead in most battleground states with a narrow margin. The Pew Research’s poll shows the president with a narrow lead. Mitt Romney is worried and that’s why he is now in pursuit of “fool’s gold.” Um, Mr. Romney, drive-by campaigning doesn’t work. It didn’t work for Bob Dole and John McCain and it won’t work for you.

Pew Research’s Final Pre-Election Poll: President Obama 50 Percent, Mitt Romney 47 Percent (Photo credit: Pew Research)

Pew Research:  Barack Obama has edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final days of the presidential campaign. In the Pew Research Center’s election weekend survey, Obama holds a 48% to 45% lead over Romney among likely voters.

The survey finds that Obama maintains his modest lead when the probable decisions of undecided voters are taken into account. Our final estimate of the national popular vote is Obama 50% and Romney 47%, when the undecided vote is allocated between the two candidates based on several indicators and opinions.

Back to the racist dog whistle getting louder and louder as we sprint to the election on Tuesday– Inquirer columnist Michael Smerconish ruffled some feathers this morning with his column, “The Pulse:  The Smearing of a President:  From Start, Unrelenting and Unfair.”

Just before Hurricane Sandy hit, Ann Coulter called our sitting president a “retard,” Sarah Palin mocked his “shuck and jive shtick,” and John Sununu openly questioned Gen. Colin Powell’s weighty endorsement as being motivated by race. At least earlier in the campaign there was some effort at camouflage. Such as when Mitt Romney aired an anti-Obama welfare commercial that falsely suggested Obama supported handouts (“They just send you your welfare check”) when, in fact, Obama was accommodating requests of several governors, two of them conservative Republicans, to try new ways to put people back to work. A similar sentiment was expressed by Romney when he maligned the 47 percent who don’t pay federal income taxes, overlooking that 83 percent of that group are either working and paying payroll taxes or they’re elderly.

And, almost daily, there have been dire warnings about Obama, often with sirens, from the Drudge Report. Example: the Sept. 18 edition featuring a hideous picture of Obama (eyes closed) emblazoned with the all-capped quote: “I ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN REDISTRIBUTION,” a 14-year-old excerpt that conveniently excised the future president’s explicit embrace of “competition” and “marketplace.” No wonder I routinely field calls from radio listeners who, with no hint of embarrassment in their voices, say things such as “I call him ‘comrade’ ” or “he’s not my president.”

All the myths about President Obama have been debunked, including the claim that he was born in Kenya, but there are many who want to keep whites scared by keeping that fire going. It’s a sad commentary that in the 1900s America was a horrible place for blacks to live and we are still confounded by racist images and stereotypes in 2012. How can we engage another country and tell them how to treat their citizens, when our sitting president is called all manner of names by the Republicans.