After a month like this, he’s still ahead?

Perhaps Bismark was right.*

John McCain may have had his worst month of the 2008 campaign since he faded into near-oblivion last spring.  The Democratic race finally appeared to settle; the ten-year McCain courtship of the media ended with the old maverick being dumped for the Audacity of Hype; McCain infuriates his own base with his cap-and-trade plan on “greenhouse gases;” his party loses two special elections in previously stone-cold, lead-pipe lock Republican seats; and throughout the GOP, the mood went from apprehensive to morose.

Yet with all that, according to Rasmussen, John McCain is once again ahead of Barack Obama.

Wow.

* Bismark once famously opined, “There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.”