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This was the most watched moment of the Vice Presidential debate last night according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s very good news for Obama and Biden, because it was the exact part that the Democrats would most want you to see during the entire broadcast, which was over 90 minutes in length.

What Charlie said.

Take it up to fullscreen.

All you have to do in order to see why I said that is watch this video from tonight’s debate in Massachusetts. Warren-Franken 2016!

As it was in 2004, the election is going to come down to the state of Ohio. Take a look at this speculative electoral college results map and I will explain below it.

This is a map of what Romney has to do to win the Presidency if Obama wins Ohio. He has to win in every single one of these swing states: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado, and Nevada. Every single one of these dominoes has to fall his way, and also he has to win the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska, which earns one electoral vote. This causes a 269 to 269 tie, and then the election is thrown into the US House of Representatives, where the outgoing lame-duck Republicans would vote to make him President over the objections of the majority of American voters. If under this same scenario Obama wins Omaha, Nebraska, he’s President.

If Obama loses in Ohio, he still has several different plausible combinations to win, and even if he also lost Florida. He currently leads, in polls taken after the first debate ended, in most of the states listed at the top before the map is shown, including Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, and Virginia. On election night, if Obama wins Florida, it’s over. If Obama wins Ohio (regardless of who wins Florida), then it’s over.