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One of Sen. Barack Obama’s surest applause lines comes about halfway into his standard stump speech. It goes like this: “They whisper to me. They say, ‘Barack, I’m a Republican, but I support you.’ And I say, ‘Thank you. Why are we whispering?’” If the latest polling data are to be believed, those Republicans aren’t whispering in Texas, where 195 of the 228 delegates the state will send to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen in a primary and caucuses Tuesday. As many as a tenth of the Texans voting in the Democratic contests could be Republicans, and overwhelmingly...

The election is over. Does anyone feel like it was all a bad dream? What I mean is when you wake up from a bad dream and everything is fine, it takes a while to convince your conscious mind that it was all a bad dream. That's how I am feeling about this campaign now. We woke up Wednesday morning, and the prospect of a Kerry presidency turned out to be a bad dream, yet I still can't quite convince myself that these Rats are going to go away and leave us the hell alone now.

The standard wisdom is this presidential election, like most, is about the incumbent; if true, John Kerry will be sworn into office next Jan. 20. President Bush is in a politically fragile situation, with little prospect of those fundamentals improving. This is reflected in this week's Wall Street Journal/NBC News national poll1, where a clear plurality of Americans believe America is headed in the wrong direction, lack confidence on the economy and Iraq and believe the country can do better than George W. Bush in the White House.