Ok, well it would be if the media took more notice.

Gateway Pundit has this nice graph.

More Bad News For the Hope and Changers–
Barack Obama and his team issued categorical denials that Obama and/or his staff had contacted Blagojevich or his staff about the succession.
Of course, it is apparent now that this was a lie.

And, despite the denials from the media, it is now obvious that the likelihood that Barack Obama and Chicago’s political culture have little to do with each other is less statistically probable than being struck by lightning.