A new poll of registered voters shows Deval Patrick leading Charlie Baker 41 to 34 percent in the Massachusetts race for governor. This would seem like good news, except for the fact that 52 percent said Governor Patrick does not deserve to be re-elected.

More trouble for President Obama as he is confronted by an "exhausted" supporter at a town hall meeting. A solidly middle-class African-American woman, she still supports Obama, but is fearful about her economic future, does not see that Obama's promises and policies are working, and is "tired of defending" Obama. Talk about the canary in the coal mine. If this is what his base supporters are thinking and feeling, is it any wonder that independents are swinging hard against him and his opponents are in a frenzy to jettison his fellow Democrats from Congress?

I am always amused by the derangement of liberal newspaper columnists, so here are a few examples...

Paul Krugman thinks the political energy of the moment is being driven by the "angry rich". Even if we discount the fact that Krugman is a member of the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans himself, he misses the point about where the anger is coming from across the land, probably because he never speaks with ordinary, middle-class people (except those who are left-wing ideologues).

Richard Cohen thinks Republicans are under some sort of demonic spell. No, Mr. Cohen, while it is true that some folks inside the GOP and the Tea Party movement say and think some nutty things (as do some folks inside the Democratic Party), the mainstream party is not under a spell, or dominated by lunatics, but just fed up with the failed policies of the Left, and the condescending attitude oftentimes expressed by those of your ilk.

Eugene Robinson excoriates Newt Gingrich for bringing up the potential menace of recognizing Islamic Sharia law here in the United States. Another questionable use of his time and the space his employers give him to write a column. I doubt very many people inside the Tea Party movement care about what Gingrich thinks, and only a small portion could even tell you what Sharia means. But, if he wants to join Cohen in his effort to show that the folks in the GOP are a bunch of extremist nutcases, I say, "bring it on". I predicted long ago that the liberals would be unable to overcome their natural feelings of intellectual superiority over the mass of the American people and would, therefore, be unable to see or accept the building anti-big government wave that is headed our way. Instead, they would, and are, wasting their time pointing fingers at whatever they consider evidence of the basic intellectual inferiority or derangement of those who do not see the world as they do.

Meanwhile, at least the editors of The Washington Post understand that the real story is the momentum being built upon by those who are part of or allied with the Tea Party movement.

Michael Gerson is also watching the poll numbers and sees good news for the GOP just about everywhere you look.

But at least one Democrat still believes the GOP will have a hard time taking the House.