The mainstream media’s ‘Romney surge’ narrative has been in tatters since the last debate:

If Obama wins Ohio, Virginia, and Nevada he could lose Iowa, Colorado, New Hampshire, Florida and even Wisconsin -- and still win with 274 electoral votes. Oh, and by the way, Republican-leaning pollster Gravis Marketing puts only Obama behind a single point in Florida.

So, Romney just had the two best weeks of his campaign both in polls and in overall campaign narrative and still no electoral poll predictor has put Romney over 270 – not one, and not ever.

But you wouldn’t know it from perusing the narrative-setting RealClearPolitics.com (RCP). Although RCP was founded by conservatives to combat the “liberal” media, RCP became one of the web’s go-to political websites with a reputation for nonpartisanship – aggregating articles and polls favorable to both right and left.

No more. RCP lost its cool after Romney won the first debate, salivating over the prospect of booting Obama from office. So despite mounting evidence that Romney's momentum has evaporated, RCP is still pushing headlines like “Romney erases Obama lead with women” and “Iowa: slipping away from Dems?”

This morning RCP does not even mention Romney-endorsed candidate Mourdock’s 'God intends rape preganacies' controversy preferring to featurs an article claiming 'Suburban voters swing to Romney'. RCP highlights a tied Michigan poll from the same laughingstock pollster which actually put Romney ahead in Michigan in August. Nowhere is respected poll analyst Nate Silver’s latest: 'In Polls, Romney’s Momentum Seems to Have Stopped'.

Silver’s rigorously tested election model correctly predicted 49 of 50 states in 2008. Silver currently gives Obama a 70%+ chance at winning re-election, likely with 290+ electoral votes. After Silver is proved right, RCP’s faulty Romney cheerleading will have exposed the once credible news source as just another unreliable affiliate of the Drudge/Limbaugh/FOX News media complex.