A new CNN/Opinion Research poll out Wednesday shows that despite nine solid days of blanket media coverage from overseas with Barack Obama cheered by adoring throngs of Germans and parlez-vousing with the French, making a three-point shot in the Middle East and standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, the freshman Illinois senator is stuck right where he was in the polls before he left.

Or maybe this is just whining that translates: We did our best to campaign for him, but the rubes aren’t buying it!

Look, if touring Europe made one qualified for office, we’d be electing tourists. Maybe touring Europe just makes you look like a tourist.