You probably heard about this: a PPP poll that found that 15 percent of Republicans in Ohio think Romney is “more responsible” for bin Laden’s death than Obama; that 47 percent of Republicans are “not sure” whether Obama or Romney deserves more of the credit; and that 6 percent of all Ohio respondents gave Romney credit where credit is not at all due and thirty-one percent of them weren’t sure whether the President or the candidate deserves more credit.

And if you’re on my side of the ideological divide, you were most likely horrified.

But speaking from a purely partisan perspective, this is nothing but good news for Democrats. It’s why contemporary Republican leaders and consultants are so desperate and why the contemporary Republican party (which is not what the Republican was and probably little like what it or its natural successor will be). The current version of the Republican party is slipping ever more quickly away from everyone else.

GOP pollsters and strategists look at those kinds of numbers and they see a party which will soon no longer look like anything that moderates, centrists, independents, or pretty much anyone else can relate to.

Everybody sees the world and (shades of Wittgenstein, for those paying attention) the facts that make up the case that is the world differently and we all put our own slant on it. But most people still tend to accept most facts as, well, facts. By publicly and vocally not accepting basic facts as facts (like a former governor of Massachusetts who had never served in the military having had nothing to with a federal, military action that occurred while said former governor was a private citizen with no formal relationship to any state, local, or federal government agency, including the military), it makes it much for anyone but the minority of core ideological followers to accept anything they say because when so much they say is so kooky, everything they say becomes suspect.