More proof today that Rupert Murdoch's Journal is morphing into a GOP bulletin board. The national daily inexplicably devotes an entire, 15-paragraph, double byline article to report the breaking news that conservative Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) won a straw poll vote at a right-wing gathering over the weekend, and heralding him as a possible 2012 White House contender [emphasis added]:

Mr. Pence, the third-ranking Republican in the House, won the “Values Voter” poll for the 2012 GOP nomination conducted by the Family Research Council Action, with 170, or 24% of votes.

Oh brother.