If the election were held this year, Bush would lose...

But it wasn't. It was held last year and you all know what happened. Regardless, CNN is reporting that "[a] majority would vote for a Democrat over President Bush if an election were held this year":

In the latest poll, 55 percent of the respondents said that they would vote for the Democratic candidate if Bush were again running for the presidency this year.

Thirty-nine percent of those interviewed said they would vote for Bush in the hypothetical election.

That's a 16-point spread, people. What does that tell us? Nothing that we don't already know: Bush isn't all that popular at the moment.

Surprise, surprise, surprise...

(Such numbers may dull your lingering pain, my Democratic friends, as it dulls my own -- but we must all look ahead to a brighter future of Democratic pleasure.)