Ponder this one for a while and see if your head doesn't explode.
Headline: "NPR Poll Finds Presidential Race Too Close To Call"
Lede:
The latest and last NPR Battleground Poll for 2012 shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holding the narrowest of leads in the national sample, but trailing President Obama in the dozen states that will decide the election.
Italics--and exasperation--mine.