Various state polls confirm Rasmussen. In both Ohio and Virginia, Barry has lost the independents at a very rapid rate and it’s not just the economy. The media sold him as a post racial and post partisan transfigurative politician who promised to change the ethical climate in Washington. He has governed from a hyper racial, hyper partisan, perspective and that change in ethics has been the transfer of Chicago style graft from Lake Michigan to the Potomac.

The Sotomayor nomination that took the left’s eyes off the detainee fiasco even turned into an ovberall negative for Barry. After Ricci came down, Rasmussen re-polled on Sotomayor and found she now has higher disapprovals than approvals among likely voters. The shift among independents was huge.

In his Our Chrysalis Stage the other day, VDH had this to say “We are being run now by film critics, not directors, book reviewers not writers, music columnists, not musicians. And it is far easier to fault than to birth, nuance rather than build. The irony is that the muscular classes carry the regulating and talking classes on their backs. They don’t mind being whipped occasionally and even bridled, but like any good mule will suddenly stop and no longer move when they feel the rider either does not know where he is going, or is going to kill the mule with his switch, spurs, and yanking on the bit.”

The mules have been braying theire lack of confidence for some time but neither the news media or the “I won” seem to want to hear.