Zero-Sum

I'm back from vacation! Amazingly, the weather in NYC is nicer than what we had for ~1/3rd of the time in Greece.

Unrelated to my vacation, I thought this post was pretty obvious from Matt Yglesias, but as he points out (obviously), it's not too obvious to the news media (or Charlie Cook). Just because Obama is less popular than he was, doesn't mean the Dems are likely to get crushed in 2010. Republicans are much less popular. Maybe not everyone finds them as unserious as I do, but (especially with the current Senate seats contested in a year) I think a Republican return to power seems much less likely than the news media makes it seem.