Getting better all the time

A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal finds

Americans are feeling better about the economy -- 57 percent of registered voters said the nation is recovering while 39 percent said it was not.

Our local fish wrap agrees.

Since national unemployment is stalled at over 8 percent (and over 10 percent in California), our apparent feeling of enhanced well-being is a little hard to fathom.

Can it be simply that the specter of a possible Republican re-assumption of the presidency is receding? The decline of the Mittster is heartening ...