A message to my fellow Democrats:

Steve Benen has a post here about how despite what the "liberal" media would like you to believe, Obama is actually ahead of McCain in the polls by a pretty fair amount.

Yesterday, Lifetime Networks released a national poll of women and their presidential preferences. Time’s Mark Halperin said Barack Obama “edged out” McCain in the poll. Obama’s lead? 11 points.

According to Chris Matthews, when McCain holds a six-point lead with a given demographic, it’s significant. When Obama holds a six-point lead, it’s “almost … negligible.”

I think they do it mostly just so they'll have something to talk to each other about, the poor things. But seriously: In this sense, at least, Obama is Reagan; McCain is Carter.

And it's 1980.

Relax, it's not even gonna be close...