Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in which we took the temperature of the presidential election . Polls, from the standpoint of the Electoral College, are basically tied . There is nothing more to be learned, even by looking at them really hard , about who is favored to win the swing states. But we can put them in context with the other things we know about the race to draw some conclusions about the candidates’