Imagine that those running for office tailored their economic positions to attract the experts in the field. What would it take to put the nation’s economists solidly behind a candidate?

Will the Democrats come to their senses on trade?

The House vote was far over the two-thirds needed to overcome a veto, meaning that the president’s criticism of the bill as bloated and wasteful won few, if any, converts.

Few pieces of legislation generate the level of public scorn heaped upon the farm bill, but few pieces of major legislation get such overwhelming bipartisan support.

The President has promised to veto the bill because he says it would not do enough to limit subsidies at a time of record grain prices.