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Pundit and Bush campaign architect Karl Rove does a column for The Wall Street Journal. His most recent effort takes a stroll through today's poll numbers and compares them with the numbers before the last midterm election (2010), which the GOP won handily.

COTTonLINE readers will not be surprised to learn that Rove discovers the auguries are favorable. That has been the conventional wisdom for a few months. However, the following Rove quote is telling:

The Washington Post/ABC News poll found in April that 53% of Americans believe it is more important to have Republicans in charge of Congress to check the president's policies, while only 39% believe it is more important to have Democrats in charge to help support Mr. Obama's policies. That 39% is the same low number seen before the 2010 midterm.

Translation: 53% of Americans believe the president's policies are wrong, 39% support them.