Slight Increase for Bush in Polls Leads to Slight Increase of Articles about Slight Increase for Bush in Polls

Earlier this week Bush saw a slight increase in Poll numbers based on a ABC News-Post poll , leading Democratic strategists to come out with a real revelation: that there is a small but unmistakable shift in the political envirornment.

The two are still tied in the afformentioned poll at 49 percent (unless you add the leaners, in which case Bush drops a percentage point. (Margin of Error plus or minus 3 points for the ABC poll).

I'll be interested to see if this is part of a Convention related bounce for Bush, and will be sure to add some commentary on that following the RNC, but the Yahoo News AP article I linked to is really quite useless - small shifts in numbers tend to occur all the time, and often have less to do with the actual popularity of the candidate then on a myriad of other factors, possibly including our poor performance in Olympic Trampoline events.

A glance at a whole group of recent Bush vs. Kerry matchups show that the two are pretty much in the same state they were in at the start of the summer : neck and neck.

Just another piece of evidence to support my case for the dismemberment of our current electoral college in favor of an American Gladiator jousting event that would decide the presidency.