Big Mo.

How good was the Bush operation in Missouri? Consider this fact: 55,000 volunteers worked at least one three-hour shift in the final 72 hours of the campaign. The vast majority of BC04 volunteers worked multiple three-hour shifts.

Roughly 1,452,000 Missourians voted for President Bush. The volunteer to voter ratio was 1 to 26.

It Must Have Tested Badly

Old Spin: Band of Bigots. New Spin: Americans don't change their Commander in Chief in the middle of a war (Senator Chris Dodd on Imus this morning, explaining why President Bush won re-election).

The old spin is what they believe. The new spin is what the pollsters told them to say when the old spin bombed at the box office.