One noticeable difference this election versus the last cycle is the amount of spin both sides are generating. I'm on the mailing lists for Republican and Democratic Senatorial campaign committees and the Republican and Democratic House campaign committees. The amount of email these folks are sending out this year on a daily basis is staggering. Every possible event, detail, statement or gaffe is immediately pumped out via email under the most dramatic and accusatory headline imaginable.

As one might expect with both sides spinning so hard, every now and then one group will go a bridge too far. Today it happened to the DCCC, which just sent out an email leading off with the following:

"According to a new report by the National Association of Realtors, for the first time since April of 1995, around the time the GOP took over Congress, home prices have declined nationally, and are likely to continue to fall for the rest of the year. [emphasis added]

Presumably, the DCCC is trying to make the fatuous argument that Republicans are to blame for the current drop in housing prices, but instead they seem to have produced an advertisement crediting Republicans for the decade long housing boom.