Gov. Mitt Romney in Wheaton, today, hat in hand...

By the way, while visiting Mom's house, yesterday, it was interesting to see the spruce-up of a mansion across the street and two houses up where Mitt Romney will be holding a fundraiser tomorrow on Primary Day. There's a huge American flag flying on a tall pole in the middle of the front yard and Mom was invited to come to the fundraiser with her donation in hand. A little birdie told me she declined, although no one should take this as any negative statement on her part. She's no political partisan.

Meanwhile Sen. Rick Santorum will be visiting Elgin, twenty-two miles away, where David and I graduated from high school. To suburbanites from the Western suburbs, those two choices say a lot. The distance between Wheaton and Elgin is similar to the distance between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, Michigan. (TB)