blanchard in alabama running for governor, hillen running for governor in nebraska. and of course desantis, he has a minute-long web ad that calls fauci a flip-flopper, plays different clips of him saying one thing on masks then another, and the shot widens out into a beach and a pair of flip floms in the sand and he tells fauci to pound sand. if you think this isn't effective politics, there's a poll today showing desantis has a relatively comfortable lead for florida, that is, over his possible democratic opponent. it's early on, as you have discussed. the virus gets a vote. charles frankel from wisconsin pollster told us that for our story today. so things change, but the trend is with republicans. some case the top line, like mask mandates, still slightly popular than unpopular, but