IF ONLY THEY VOTED THIS WAY: Gallup: Majority of Americans still think gov’t encroaching too much on individuals, businesses. “Given the consistent response from the electorate over the last 25 years, it’s remarkable that the one party most oriented toward small-government conservatism has not been able to find a way to take advantage of this consensus.”

Well, as Prof. Tim Groseclose’s research has found, if it weren’t for media narrative-control, America’s politics would look like Utah’s instead of, well, what they do. Sort of surprised that the GOP, and even non-GOP free-market donors, can’t seem to take the lesson here.