The week before last was a terrible one for Mitt Romney. Everyone said so. The Obama attacks on his career at Bain Capital were taking huge chunks out of his credibility. The bad jobs report for June diverted attention for only a minute, then attention snapped back to Bain and Mitt’s taxes. They dominated the Sunday talk shows, and the early week’s coverage, as liberal sites gloated over the hole Romney was digging, and the brilliance and moxie of Obama’s paid killers, and how Romney would never crawl out.

Too bad that pesky New York Times/CBS News poll had to come out on Thursday, saying that after these terrible weeks, Romney was gaining, closing the gap in Virginia and other key swing states; creeping up in Pennsylvania and Michigan; and now led Obama in the general matchup, if barely.