Looking Ahead

Here is how the presidential race is shaping up.

The President passed one of the most unpopular bills in history with Obamacare and did so without any bipartisan support. He is saddled with one of the worst economies in years with unemployment stubbornly over 8% and nobody on whom he can conveniently blame it. George W. Bush has been gone for three and a half years and people aren't buying that anymore. Obama's approval rating has been stuck well below 50% and they can't move the needle no matter how much they spend on TV commercials. Of course the TV commercials aren't designed to increase the President's positives they are designed to up Romney's negatives. What are Romney's negatives you ask? That would be being very, very wealthy and not releasing every tax return he has ever filed. And in case you don't know it, although that would be hard to believe, he has an elevator for his multiple cars, including those of his wife who has a "couple of Cadillacs," and he once put his dog in a kennel on the roof of his car. This particularly outraged the PETA crowd as well as all the rednecks who haul their dogs in the back of their pick up trucks. They thought using the kennel made him look like a wuss. All pretty damaging stuff.

Seriously. That's the best they can come up with.