Scott Rasmussen send me an email every day, booming himself of course, but also interesting me. A good deal is naturally Schadenfreude and I'm serving up huge, big, heaping helpings of Schadenfreude every time I look at the polls for the upcoming election.

Very interesting is that in the race to replace the late, and completely unlamented, Senator Robert Byrd, the Grand Kleagle of the KKK. Senator Byrd was noted for being the biggest porker in the Senate, and not a single tear was shed in my house when he assumed room temperature. Even the cats Calvin and Hobbes laughed. It must be contagious. (Let's hope that it doesn't work the other way because a sandbox doesn't sound all that convenient.)

This West Virginia seat, from a state which has often trended Democrat, is now a race between the Republican, Joe Manchin, and the Democrat, John Raese. The Republican is eight points ahead of the Democrat. This is like snow in Honolulu. Recall that this is the state which also elected, over and over, Senator Jay Rockefeller, who for my money is the stupidest senator of all, including Patty Murray. And this is not a one-size-fits-all insult. Listen to Jay Rockefeller. I had no idea that so few generations of Rockefellers could breed the brains entirely out, like inbred European royalty 200 years ago.

Harry Reid is even with Sharon Angle in Nevada, and the drive-by media's been so successful in demonizing her that even normally sensible people are being spooked by some of Ms. Angle's comments.

Senator Boxer is only one point ahead of the Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina.

Meg Whitman, the Republican, is eight points above Jerry "Medfly" Brown for governor of California. I do not know Ms. Whitman but I have seen Governor Jerry Brown interviewed. Earth to Jerry!

And in the generic ballot, the Republicans are ahead more than the margin of error.

This is all well and good but the most interesting thing is that Joe Miller of Alaska beat Senator Lisa Murkoski in the GOP primary in Alaska. The credit goes to endorsements by Governors Palin and Huckabee. The Tea Party is reforming the GOP.

Republicans, here's your chance. If you're smart enough to take it, the GOP can be saved by the Tea Party. I have over and over found myself being disgusted by elected Republicans getting a "new-found respect" in Washington, which means of course that they've moved left. The Democrats, vile though their policies are, at least tell you what they're going to do.

Good. If the Tea Party is even somewhat successful in reforming the Republicans, I'll quit referring to the them as Get Out and Push, or Republicrats or Democrats Lite.