The lastest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows
President Bush with a 48-45 per cent lead, with Ralph Nader showing 2 per cent and 5 per cent describing themselves as undecided.
Encouragingly for John Kerry, his message on the war in Iraq appears to be gaining him as much traction as his appeal on the economy, with even many of those who say the US was right to oust Saddam now saying that the price has been too high.
But despite his renewed focus on the President's "wrong" decisions in Iraq and on national security, it's a risky strategy to convince voters that a chaotic situation would be improved by a change of leadership.
The Washington Times, if you can get past the poll question on whether Dan Rather should resign, has Karl Rove laying out the President's simple re-election strategy.
Meanwhile the Bush-Cheney team's latest attack ad, "Windsurfing" perpetuates the notion of John Kerry as a flip-flopper by changing his position whichever way the wind's blowing.
As John Harris writes in the Washington Post, the incredible thing for a lot of Democrats is how their man has been stuck with the label despite the President's own volte-faces.
Harris writes: As Democrats see it, the flip-flopper allegation is this year's equivalent of how the GOP four years ago portrayed Al Gore as a chronic truth-stretcher, and now, as then, blame the news media for accepting and promoting a caricature.
And finally (maybe far from) the last word for now on the CBS documents fiasco - and astute readers will have noted that this column has now almost run out of descriptions, having worked through farrago, debacle, affair, incident and even, possibly, imbroglio - goes to Jon Stewart who told Katie Couric he was glad Dan Rather was "picking up his mantle of fake news"...
President Bush with a 48-45 per cent lead, with Ralph Nader showing 2 per cent and 5 per cent describing themselves as undecided.
Encouragingly for John Kerry, his message on the war in Iraq appears to be gaining him as much traction as his appeal on the economy, with even many of those who say the US was right to oust Saddam now saying that the price has been too high.
But despite his renewed focus on the President's "wrong" decisions in Iraq and on national security, it's a risky strategy to convince voters that a chaotic situation would be improved by a change of leadership.
The Washington Times, if you can get past the poll question on whether Dan Rather should resign, has Karl Rove laying out the President's simple re-election strategy.
Meanwhile the Bush-Cheney team's latest attack ad, "Windsurfing" perpetuates the notion of John Kerry as a flip-flopper by changing his position whichever way the wind's blowing.
As John Harris writes in the Washington Post, the incredible thing for a lot of Democrats is how their man has been stuck with the label despite the President's own volte-faces.
Harris writes: As Democrats see it, the flip-flopper allegation is this year's equivalent of how the GOP four years ago portrayed Al Gore as a chronic truth-stretcher, and now, as then, blame the news media for accepting and promoting a caricature.
And finally (maybe far from) the last word for now on the CBS documents fiasco - and astute readers will have noted that this column has now almost run out of descriptions, having worked through farrago, debacle, affair, incident and even, possibly, imbroglio - goes to Jon Stewart who told Katie Couric he was glad Dan Rather was "picking up his mantle of fake news"...
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