CONfident CONfidence

Trying to Pooh-Pooh all the problems besetting the Big Lug Nut, The Pickle told the press --

"He's in better shape than I was at this point and time in my re-election efforts. I would have been happy to have been in the place that he is in, in June of 2002. I'm very confident that Gov. Chet Culver is going to be re-elected."

The press checked and...

An Iowa Poll taken in June of 2002 showed Vilsack ahead of Republican Doug Gross by 43 percent to 41 percent.

In a poll released last week by KCCI-TV, former Gov. Terry Branstad was the choice of 51 percent of all Iowa voters in a head-to-head matchup with Culver


Revisionist history is always a Croc and the scientific community is united in that fact.