GOP

The most recent Elway Poll, done June 18-22, followed up on its gubernatorial preference question by asking would-be voters what they thought "GOP" meant. Three fourths of the 405 registered voters knew that Grand Old Party stood for the Republican Party, but the other twenty-five percent of them got it wrong.

Fifteen percent of the respondents did not know what the acronym stood for while seven percent believed it represented the Democratic Party, and three percent thought something else entirely. Even more significant is that the sample of people who answered incorrectly fell relatively evenly across the political spectrum.

Gubernatorial challenger Rossi, while not a member of the mob, is back to being a member of the Republican Party. At least according to his fundraising email.

This just in - Dino Rossi might be Italian. But not in the swarthy, cosa nostra, mafioso way. Which isn't what people should think of when they think of Italians anyway because that would be racist. Think of gelato instead.