Yesterday, the Huffington Post ran a headline "SHOCKER" as it simply could not believe how high the percentage of people who still believe in creationism was. How high was it? 60%? 70%? Nope.

40%. Down from 47% a decade ago.

The fact that HuffPo was stunned by the 40% number, a number that was lower than the guesses I got when I asked people what they thought the percentage was, shows their disconnect with the American people. And while I'm sure that many people would say that they are glad that they don't connect with the people in this poll (I'm looking at you Bill Maher), the problem is that these are the people that liberals need to convince in order to get most anything done in this democracy.

As we've learned continually in the past, one of the strengths of the Republicans is that they paints themselves as speaking to the people rather than speaking at them, like the Democrats do. The fact that the Huffington Post is so stunned that less than half of Americans believe in creationism and thinks it's worthy of a headline isn't going to help the liberals cause any.