Attention Democrats Wishing to Defeat Bush: DO NOT PANIC!!!! EVER!!!!

Nathan is completely right here.

Really, the media will be pushing 'campaign in crisis' stories whenever it can, both for Bush and Kerry. Let it roll right off you. Be like a cool political operative. Just get everybody you know to vote, and if you live in a swing state, get everybody you know to volunteer. And don't panic.

Doing well or doing poorly, Kerry -- Mr. Non-Redistributionist Democrat -- is ever-increasingly "Bush-lite." We really, really should've been able to do better than this in the Democratic presidential primary.

The unions are doing fine, but Kerry sucks. Why does he insist on staying close to Bush on the Iraq disaster? And why hasn't he opened up a campaign office in Ohio by now?

Kerry has stayed close because of outside factors, not for anything he's done. Hard to believe so many Dems voted for this guy cause he's "electable"!!

according to the iowa electronic market bush will win by about 6% of the popular vote. this seems like a pretty good estimate to me. i came to the same result based on comparison with the 1988 election.

the IEM does not have a winner take all offering but the british bookies are giving kerry about a 42% chance of winning which i think is too high. i think 25% is closer to the real number.

edwards probably would have been better but even he would have lost. the incumbent usually has a very big advantage.

Let's not forget that this is the same John Kerry who was written off as a sure loser before the primaries. When people talked of an "electable" alternative to Dean, they spoke of Clark and Edwards, not Kerry.

As N.N. points out, Kerry always runs strong at the end of a campaign. Bush, on the other hand, lost ground as election day approached in all three of his races.

As for Kerry being too conservative, I really can't take that seriously. Politically, there is a wider gulf between Bush and Kerry than there has been in any presidential race since Goldwater and Johnson ran in '64. Would we have invaded Iraq if Kerry had been president? Would we be running $500 billion in deficits each year? Would the Labor Department be taking overtime pay away from millions of Americans? Would we have supported a coup in Haiti? Would there be a $100,000 tax write-off for buying Hummers while gas prices spike? The list goes on and on.

I never would have voted for Nader if I had thought that Bush would be anywhere near as radical as he's turned out to be. I wanted to let the Democratic Party know that they couldn't win by writing off the progressives in the party. Now that they've nominated a man who is among the most liberal in the senate, I think it's do or die time. If progressives don't work for this candidate, the clear message to the Democratic Party will be that they may as well ignore the progressives and nominate Zell Miller in '08, as progressives will not accept any mainstream candidate under any circumstances.

You said it, Gordo! Speaking as a resident of Massachusetts, I can say that Kerry is a centrist on trade, and blew it on the war vote last year, but on every other issue I can think of he has been a solid mainstream liberal.

You said it, Gordo! Speaking as a resident of Massachusetts, I can say that Kerry is a centrist on trade, and blew it on the war vote last year, but on every other issue I can think of he has been a solid mainstream liberal.

kevin,

kerry is a free trader not a fair trader (voted for nafta, fast track...), undermining labor rights, the environment, and democracy.

kerry voted for the patriot act.

i live in MA too. kennedy is a solid liberal. kerry is not (unless you are taking the kerry of the 70's & 80's and averaging that will the kerry of the 90's and 00's).

look, i'm going to vote for the guy... but, let's tell it like it is.

You're absolutely right (strangely, David Brooks agrees with you). Moverover, the most damning thing Kerry's critics seem to manage is "yeah, but he's boring." Could be that Americans will vote for reasons less superficial than that.

Rope-a-dope, anyone?

Kerry & his extremly wealthy wife outsourced jobs away from union workers on Heinz St.in Mechanicsburg, Pa to a third party. He then goes on to critize Bush for allowing outsourcing.
What a BUM!!!!
If kerry and his billionare wife get richer on the backs of working men & women it's OK with leftists. But just let Bush allow someone outsource......

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