Murphy's Starting To Look Like Underdog  Thursday dawned gray
and rainy for Democrats in Connecticut.  The previous night, a
wooden replica of President Obama stood before the nation
blinking helplessly while Mitt Romney became the life of the
party.  And when their eyelids fluttered opened in the morning,
awaiting them was a Q poll in which Linda McMahon had closed the
tiny gap between herself and Chris Murphy.  It might be time to
sit the kids down and say, "Jason and Apple, there's a
possibility that our state may elect someone ridiculously
unqualified to serve for six years in the Senate, someone whose
sole contributions to humankind, heretofore, have been smut and
moronic simulated violence, followed by a last minute — don't
cry, Apple, we all have to be brave right now — a last-minute
burnishing of her smudgy reputation with a blizzard of
charitable contributions."  It could be worse. The seat has been
occupied by a person whose behavior over time has closely
approximated that of the devious Norse god L