This is a few days old already, but worthy of note: midlevel employees in the Department of Labor produced a study which predicts a Bush win that exceeds all polls and expectations:

The Labor Department has produced a report predicting that President Bush will win reelection on Tuesday.

This extraordinary example of your tax dollars at work was produced on Oct. 22 by the department’s Employment and Training Administration. The report, a weekly installment of the “Briefing on Economic & Labor Market Conditions” prepared for Assistant Secretary Emily Stover DeRocco, a political appointee, begins with a brief review of economic statistics. Then it gets down to business with a four-page section titled: “In Focus: Predicting the Election Outcome.”

The prediction? (Drumroll, please.) A smashing victory for Bush. [source]

The report predicts that Bush will win by 55.7% to 57.5%, rather incredibly optimistic considering all current information at hand. But the outrageously partisan finding of the report is less at issue than the fact that the Bush Labor Department is now apparently in the business of using official resources and taxpayer dollars to fund such a partisan report. Nonetheless, it is perhaps one of the least surprising examples of malfeasance within the Bush administration to date–despite the fact that had it happened under Clinton, it almost automatically would have prompted an official Congressional investigation, aside from all the indignant shouts of protest from the GOP about scandal and more scandal.

It is telling about the atmosphere of corruption that Bush has created that such a thing would be reported publicly, and so close to an election, and yet be almost universally disregarded as simply ‘more of the same.’