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As you can see from the charts below, McCain was the underdog from wire to wire. Following George Bush was a mugs game, and I'm frankly surprised that someone with McCain's political instincts undertook such foolishness. Maybe he was hoping to line up against Hilary? Anyway, after a momentary glimpse of 50/50 upon wrapping up the nomination, an Obama win was never really in question. The Obama/Romney chart is altogether different. The generic Republican had a chance for a while, but you can see that the GOP primary really took a toll on Romney. Once Obama put away the rope-adope, and clicked into campaign mode, he opened a huge lead on Romney. A lead so wide that when Romney locked down the nomination, it registered as a blip among the IEM bettors.

There is something to be said for polling averages, as it calms you down and cures your whiplash after reading through each new poll.

Barack Obama may have the mojo — and I stress may — to withstand the fecal tsunami of GOP super PAC attack ads this year. But four years from now — unless the Democrats have become vastly more friendly to the interests of billionaires than they already are — how is the first Democratic non-incumbent to run in a Citizens United world possibly going to compete with right-wing billionaire cash?

He is such a huge campaign asset, and so great at bringing the working class heat, that it is almost too perfect that the Republicans picked Mitt Romney.

In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.

We have a mother load of polls to go through today, mostly because I was away from a computer all day yesterday. But before we get to the polls, let me first thank our beloved fire and mouth breathing teabaggers, for making yet another Senate seat now extremely competitive. Nebraska, like Indiana, was supposed to be won easily by the GOP this fall. Indeed, Nebraska was going to be an all important pick up seat, allowing the GOP to possibly take control of the chamber, as incumbent Democratic Senator Ben Nelson was finally retiring. Alas... the establishment far right candidates for the race were not far right and evil enough for the teabaggers.

The Sussex County Council is its own worst enemy. Here is the table of contents from the plaintiff's argument.

I. The Sussex County Council’s practice of reciting the Lord’s Prayer before Council meetings is plainly unconstitutional A. The Lord’s Prayer is a distinctively Christian prayer B. Sectarian legislative prayers are unconstitutional C. Even under a more permissive minority view that allows individual sectarian prayers in some circumstances, the Council’s prayer practice unconstitutionally affiliates the Council with one particular religion D. The Council’s prayer practice also violates the Delaware Constitution

I've taken some inquiries on membership info for "Delaware Businesses for Social Responsibility," a business advocacy group dedicated to the proposition that business advocacy groups should advocate for more than tax cuts. Hit the jump for the details. If you are interested in joining in time to get the member rate for the ASBC business summit in Washington this June, let me know. Also, there will be a DBSR steering committee within the next two weeks. If you want to be involved with that email me at the email address located at the bottom of this post.