OMG!!! LITTLE BOBBY "I AM MY FATHER!" CASEY IS SOOOOOOOO FREAKIN' HOT!!!!!!!!

Shailagh Murray, another of the drones at Washington's other newspaper with a sexually ambiguous moniker, gets all hot and bothered by the latest crop of bloodthirsty ghouls representing The Party of Blasphemy, Buggery, and 'Bortion.

Let's face it, kiddies. Nothing says sexy quite like...well...blasphemy, buggery, and babykilling...

Maybe Democratic candidate Michael Arcuri is running strong in this Republican House district because he pledges to expand health coverage, balance the budget and raise the minimum wage.

Or maybe it's his piercing Italian eyes and runner's physique.

"He is pretty good-looking," observed Paula Ferrin with admiration, as the 47-year-old district attorney worked the crowd at a local senior center.

"What we want is brains, honey," scolded her friend Rose Oliver.

"True," Ferrin answered, "but handsome doesn't hurt."

The research is unambiguous that Ferrin is right: Attractive politicians have an edge over not-so-attractive ones. The phenomenon is resonating especially this year. By a combination of luck and design, Democrats seem to be fielding an uncommonly high number of uncommonly good-looking candidates.

The beauty gap between the parties, some on Capitol Hill muse, could even be a factor in who controls Congress after Election Day.

Democratic operatives do not publicly say that they went out of their way this year to recruit candidates with a high hotness quotient. Privately, however, they acknowledge that, as they focused on finding the most dynamic politicians to challenge vulnerable Republicans, it did not escape their notice that some of the most attractive prospects were indeed often quite attractive. (Thanks to Laura Ingraham for the heads up.)