By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely...

By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely vulnerable. Not only is the economy in bad shape, he has proved to be a much more hesitant, less commanding White House presence than his supporters longed for. And yet, most surveys put him comfortably ahead of his would-be rivals. That’s not a positive judgment on the president – whose approval rating stands at a meagre 44% – but an indictment of the dire quality of a Republican field almost comically packed with the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone and downright flaky. And the finger of blame for this state of affairs points squarely at the studios of Fox News.

Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian. How Fox News is helping Barack Obama’s re-election bid.

I honestly didn’t know the laws of the universe allowed letters to be physically arranged in the order of this headline. — Michael