In the latest Investor's Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll, please note the regional breakdown:
Obviously this isn't surprising, but it is disheartening. We know the race is close, but it's close only because of the South. If the South were a separate country, Obama would be winning handily.
Then again, if the South were a separate country, the Republican Party here in America might be able to choose a relatively sane presidential nominee, one who wasn't constantly warning of the (secular and/or religious) apocalypse, either sincerely or opportunistically. Or, perhaps, there's another possibility: both parties here in America might be forced into a fearful jingoism, as a result of having that crazy Southistan on our border. I'm not sure, but I continue to be sorry that we'll never find out what it would be like.
