In the course of a lengthy, very interesting and very NateSilverian run-down of the statistical evidence that the current GOP 2012 field really is as weak as people say, Nate rolls out this beautifully telling and concise paragraph …
Meanwhile, the Republicans have two candidates in Ms. Palin and Mr. Gingirch whose net favorability ratings are actually in the double-digit negatives, something which since 2000 had only been true of Pat Buchanan and Al Sharpton.