Zandi: Economy on election day will look a lot like today

Romney has everything riding on a bad economy, and the President the opposite.  A muddled economy means other issues, like Romney's refusal to come clean about his taxes, all the more relevant in the voters' minds:

Zandi predicted the November unemployment rate would be around 8 percent -- near its current level at 8.2 percent -- but noted the unemployment rate was lower in key swing states including Ohio, Virginia and New Hampshire.