Understatement, overstatement, and denial

I caught this Oliver Willis post: “The Dems do badly in this NBC poll, but considering there’s no nominee yet the real shocker is that only 51% say Bush should be re-elected.”

Only 51%? That will suffice, you know. As for the Dems faring “badly” – whew! In a head-to-head matchup, the best Dem candidate would lose to Bush by a crushing, humiliating, 17% gap.

Burns: Honestly, Smithers, I don't know why Harvard even bothers to show up. They barely even won.
Smithers: Their cheating was even more rampant than last year, sir.

This will be the script for the Democrats on November 3rd.