is to turn bounces into trends.
It is a long way from now until the first Tuesday of November, and if article by the former Dukakis manager is any indication, the dems are going to be sleuthing pretty hard for ways to drive up negatives, since any dispute of their guy's record is a vicious smear that jsutifies loosing the dogs of war.
Kerry did come back strong in Iowa, which is admittedly a democrat microcosm, closer to the protected world of Massachusets democrat machine politics than to the reality of a two party nation. But if this bounce is W's peak, then it is giong to be a tough two months.
Sixty days in politics can be a lifetime, but both sides have the same amount of time.
Ed