In case you didn’t pay attention, and you’re completely excused if you didn’t, the Democrats had an election over the weekend to choose a new party chair.

It’s someone named Ken Martin, and he’s been the chairman of the state party in Minnesota — where Democrat politics produced Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Keith Ellison when it wasn’t treating the police like Bane did in Gotham and opening the windows to enjoy the smell of burning cities.
And lest you think that Ken Martin is cut from a different cloth than the nomenklatura of that party, I can disabuse you of such a notion with alacrity. Here’s a quote...
“The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.”
Hmmm.
The Democrats have a problem they don’t seem to want to acknowledge. Virtually every poll — and I’ve seen three of them in the last few days — puts their approval rating in the low 30s (31 percent was the last one) and their disapproval rating in the high 50s. (RELATED: Democrats Have No Roadmap for Their Journey Through the Wilderness … and James Carville Knows It)
This isn’t just a verdict on their party leaders, though it is that. They’ve got some real problems with finding a standard bearer.
It’s this bad...

???? 2028 National Democratic Primary (+/- shift vs December)
• Harris - 33% (-2)
• Buttigieg - 9% (-3)
• Newsom - 7% (=)
• Ocasio-Cortez - 6% (+3)
• Shapiro - 3% (-2)
• Walz - 3% (-2)
• Whitmer - 3% (=)
• Klobuchar - 3% (+2)
• Stephen A. Smith - 2% (new)
• Booker - 2%… pic.twitter.com/9Azjt1irek
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) January 30, 2025

There’s an awful lot you can glean from that poll.
For one thing, it tells you that Democrat voters are terribly uninformed. A third of them are for Kamala Harris largely because they don’t even know who else is out there, and a majority of them are for one of the people on that list because of identity politics.
You don’t get good candidates that way. And a primary electorate in which AOC doubles up Josh Shapiro is a re...