Johnson found some late in-swing from over the wicket and Cook, back in his crease, was struck halfway up his static front leg to be lbw.
There is a tendency in Scotland to swing from triumphalism to gloom in a heartbeat, yet this is not a case of "we're all doomed".
There was a new set of polls in swing states from the firm Purple Strategies, and there was a weekly national tracking poll from YouGov.
A series of surveys in swing states from the firm Purple Strategies shows relatively little change in the race since its last set of polls five weeks ago.
Despite the appearance of a closely contested race and a vulnerable Democratic president, turnout was essentially flat or depressed, particularly in swing states, from the beginning.
According to the OBV study, the ethnic minority vote will be crucial in swing seats from the Midlands to the south coast, across to East Anglia, and in the north-east.
The most unambiguously bearish sign for Mr. Romney are the poor polls he has been getting in swing states from pollsters that use a thorough methodology and include cellphones in their samples.
OFA and MoveOn both have programs that allow you to call voters in swing states from the comfort of your own home.
He makes the case for either a large or small impact, and leans personally to a small one, which dropped her lead in swing states from 4.5 points to just 1.7 points a couple days before the election.
In the past week, a smorgasbord of surveys have found Trump leading in swing states from Ohio to Florida to Utah to North Carolina; many national polls gave Trump a slim lead as well.
A campaign called the Summer of Making and Connecting will be in full swing from now through September.
