Make Way For Makeweight

Really dumb piece in USA Today on 5 reasons why the Republicans are in trouble for 2008. And not simply because it's still too early to do such analysis.

Certainly the Republicans are in trouble, but it's because the war is unpopular and they're the party of the war. That's pretty much it.

Here are the 5 reasons in the article: 1) Iraq, 2) excitement is contagious, 3) fewer say they're Republicans, 4) money flowing to the Democrats and 5) hunger for change growing.

To the extent that 2 through 5 are correct, they're all consequences of Iraq. But if you just said that, there's no article, and you're not allowed to have a bunch of white space on the front page.