A double take…

A double take…

…at Darcy Burner's astonishing 49-46% lead over Sheriff Dave in the new Constituent Dynamics poll of WA-8 sent Goldy in search of the back story...

As for the somewhat surprising results that show Burner with an early lead despite having very little paid media and a huge name ID disadvantage, Broadhead sees this as part of a larger trend borne out across all 30 House races surveyed: that the 2006 election is in the process of being nationalized like no other race since 1994. The difference, as Broadhead reads the data, is that unlike 1994, when it was largely angry white men who turned against the Democratic-controlled Congress, the anger in 2006 is more broadly distributed across the electorate.

Anger. It's about time, because in these times, outrage is the only appropriate response. Helps explain this, too…

President Bush's once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks.

North, south, east and upper left, it's starting to look like, well, morning in America.