Also, we're testing out Nate Silver's hypothesis that the public option would poll strongly in most Blue Dog districts. We're polling the question in Arkansas 4 (Mike Ross), Texas 28 (Henry Cuellar), Michigan 1 (Bart Stupak) and Georgia 12 (John Barrow).
And we still have poll results from Connecticut we're releasing tomorrow. So it's a veritable polling festival this week.
But it's also true that child abductions are very rare, and stranger abductions even rarer yet. And I do long for the days when kids (like me) could roam their neighborhood at will from the age of seven or eight, with the only parental instruction being "be home before dinner". What I'd like to know, however, would be the before and after rates of child abductions, from the early 70s to today. As annoying as our parental hysteria might be to non-parents and children, I'd be curious to see if it's had any impact on abduction rates.
Though even if just one kid was abducted per year, I wouldn't want to be the parent of that single kid. Part of being a parent is being irrationally overprotective of our children.
We’ve reached a stage where the Joe Wilsons and Michelle Bachmanns of the world are more beholden to Glenn Beck and the tea baggers than their own party leaders.
But we'll know for sure by Thursday or Friday, when we have the results of the AR-04 poll.