If you are what you eat -- a dubious proposition -- then does what you eat say something about how you will vote? More important, does your choice of adult beverage have some political significance?

Here is some encouraging data on the education reform front, by way of our friends at Scripps-Howard News Service:

President Bush's approval rating has reached a record low  among American people. The latest polls indicate that  only 19% of Americans think the country is going in the right direction as opposed to 81% in  the wrong one.

Yet, Bush claims that " History will be the judge" of his administration and compare himself to Truman and other unpopular presidents.

Let see what historians have to say in the matter.

Our friend, co-worker and occasional nemesis Chuck Johnson has been making the case lately that we should stay in Iraq -- in part -- because a Pew Research Center poll shows that a majority of Americans still believe we can win.

Joel and I don't do a lot of horse race-style political analysis around here. For one thing, it's boring. (Gallup has McCain up five points! But Rasmussen shows Huckabee in the lead by three points! And, by the way, nobody cares!) But it's fair to say we're less interested in the day-to-day fluctuations of the polls and more interested in what the candidates are saying and pledging to do about actual issues.