Nashville, Tenn. – I'm leaning political today. Guess you could blame Dee Dee Myers and Fred Thompson, whose headline session yesterday did more than draw a standing-room only crowd.

And while their jokey banter didn't solve any of the health reform problems, they were entertaining and insightful enough to make it one of the best – and biggest – keynote sessions in the history of this humble conference.

So, it's with that thought fresh in my head that I read the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll of likely Republican contenders that place The Donald in second place – tied with that public record vandal Mike Huckabee at 17 percent – behind former Gov. Mitt Romney who's hovering around 21 percent.

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