The Republican defections continue

Gordon Smith of Oregon is now the 4th GOP Senator to decry robocalls (the two Maine Senators and Norm Coleman of Minnesota are the other two). The Huffington article provides a pretty telling time series of the Oregon polls. (Of course, we all know that a polls are just "a fancy way of systematically predicting what's going to happen.") Smith has plunged in the polls recently, even though Smith has tried to ally himself with Obama without much success. I wish more Republicans would follow suit and throw McCain under the bus (or as Gabriel would say, "Buh buh buh").