This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has only $80 million to spend, while Obama's burning through $600 mil as fast as he can, and he doesn't really need to spend a dime given the wall-to-wall media adoration.
And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.
Maybe not so strange. Some of us believe "commander in chief" is the most important part of a president's duties.
