But Ed Rollins, the Republican strategist who masterminded Mike Huckabee's run in 2008, said while he expected Romney to win, he predicted that lead to be eroded.
Recent research has eroded the idea that dreaming only occurs during REM sleep, and that it's a "bottom-up' process", with older parts of the brain activating the more recently evolved ones.
In a strongly worded critique of City behaviour in the run-up to the financial crisis, Carney said market radicalism and light-touch regulation had eroded fair capitalism, while scandals such as the rigging of Libor markets had undermined trust in the financial system.
That's what we all want and I don't want to see that eroded by this policy".
The Israeli-Hezbollah 33-day war in the summer of 2006 and the Saudi failure to push for an immediate ceasefire further eroded the king's credibility.
There was anger in Cornwall and Devon at the prospect of their age-old boundary being eroded.
Things are different when there is clear evidence of democracy becoming eroded, as in present-day Hungary.
"Trust in the government has now eroded to an unprecedented degree," said Daniel Smilov, a professor of political science at Sofia University, adding that protesters have lost their faith in all the political parties.
What has eroded their loyalty to, and trust in, Europe is that they have no voice and cannot challenge policies that are clearly not working.
Any sympathy for Greece was eroded by his failure to draft concrete proposals".
By 1990, it was in deficit by £18.7bn, and because of her laying waste UK manufacturing industry it has steadily eroded ever since then till last year it reached £106.3bn, nearly 8% of GDP.
