We proudly helped to sponsor the annual Mayor’s Boy Scouts Breakfast in Noblesville a few weeks ago. It’s a recurring sponsorship, because we believe, as does Mayor John Ditslear, that Scouting is a wonderful endeavor that needs to endure. As a matter of fact, we’re fast at work on a series of special sections for the Crossroads of America Council for the Boy Scouts of America. They are scheduled to publish in June, August and September, and the content is going to be focused on the various layers of what Scouting means in general and specifically to those that choose to participate. If you or your business are a proponent of Scouting and would like to place a message to that effect in any or all of the special publications, please let us know at [email protected], and we’ll be glad to assist you.

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You might recall from previous tomes that we place a premium on research, and so it was with great interest that we read last week’s Wall Street Journal/NBC poll results. They pointed out that the overall electoral milieu for Democrats is worse than it was in 2010, when the Republicans had their best midterm performance since Harry S. Truman was president. President Barack Obama’s job-approval rating is at an all-time low of 41 percent. While Western Europe is at risk, among other crisis issues, Obama was playing golf. Of course he was. One other point: The poll respondents were divided on Obamacare, with 49 percent saying (as we have) that it’s a bad idea, and 39 percent saying it was a good idea. The bottom line here: The Republicans will find a way to screw up the advantage. Bank on it.