Let's recap ...

Stopped the Great Depression for becoming the Great Depression.
Ended Iraq war.
Killed OBL.
DOW up over 6000 points.
UE down from a high of 10.2% during recession to 7.8% (and falling) now.
Ends DADT.
Saves US auto industry.

Any one of these and the GOP is carving their President's face on Mt Rushmore.

Obama does all of this, and its not enough.

There may, indeed.

Could and should be higher ... but I just don't see him under 300.

And, I can easily see scenarios in which Romney barely breaks 200.

Check the EC averages from before the conventions, to now. Romney as far as I can tell has been above 200 EC votes. I think 191 has been his high.

Over that same period, Obama has been above 200, and has high as about 265. I think Obama's lowest has been 201.

I'm using Real Clear numbers ... btw.

I think a lot of people are going to be surprised. There's way too much pessimism connected with this election among Democrats. I don't share it. As I look at the polls in the swing states, I feel confident that Obama will do just fine, and I think the Republicans know it.

It looks good (300 to 239) but it only meant he won FL, OH, WI, and one other state that isn't NH from the undecided.

and who pardoned Nixon and couldn't break 52%. In the 16 elections from 48 to 08 exactly once (Johnson 64) did we win a landslide. He ran as the heir to a martyred President and against a nut. Obama is running with a mediocre economy and the fact is he could still wind up doing close to as well as he did in 08. In the EC he could wind up winning all he won before except for NC, MO, and IN and that would frankly be a miracle.

And as for landslide wins ... its good to note that Obama's win in 2008 is the strongest since Reagan.

First Bush in 88 did have a stronger win that Obama in 08. He got 52.9% vs Bush's 53.4% and 426 EV vs 365 EV. Second, while Carter has the reputation now as being a horrible politician (thanks to his loss in 80) what he did in 76 is nothing short of amazing. He was the first southerner elected to the Presidency who wasn't an incumbent since the civil war (unless you count Wilson who was born in VA but was governor of NJ). He did this having served in the state senate for two terms and one term as governor. In short, Carter was an ambitious man surrounded by a crack political team. He beat Hubert Humphrey, Mo Udall, and Jerry Brown to get the nomination.

As long as he wins!

But even with that, I don't see Rmoney winning legally. As you correctly pointed out we could indeed even lose Ohio to election shenanigans and still have paths to victory. Even with just VA & IA, or VA & NV, we'd still win.

And, IMO, we're not likely to lose NV, IA, or WI at all. Too many things are working in our favor in these states. Hell, we can even say the same for VA!

That possibility was within reach a few weeks ago and may be again, but we have to fight for it, starting with the debates.

It is remotely possible but quite unlikely. We have to win all of the races that are Safe dem, Likely dem, Lean dem and the tossups plus 9 out of 20 of the leaning GOP seats. A very hard table to run.