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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (5004)9/28/2004 11:39:32 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Gloom Is Not a Plan

Best of the Web Today - September 28, 2004
By JAMES TARANTO

Pro-Kerry pundits were all atwitter over the weekend about what a great week John Kerry had. He finally has a message! He's challenging the president on Iraq! Never mind that, as Christopher Hitchens points out, Kerry's "message" amounts to the hope that things will go badly over the next five weeks. Winning is everything.

Well, Kerry's strategy didn't look winning to us last week, and now there's polling evidence to back us up. The latest Washington Post/ABC poll asks registered voters if they think John Kerry has "a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq." A majority, 56%, say he does not. Only 38% say he does. This after a week of touting his putative plan.

Kerry's numbers on this question have actually gotten worse since the last time it was posed, in June. Then, 42% thought Kerry had a plan and 52% said he didn't. By contrast, Bush has improved from 48% yes and 50% no in June to 53% yes and 44% no in September.

At Thursday's debate, of course, Kerry has perhaps his only remaining opportunity to persuade Americans that he has a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq. To do so, however, would require one thing he lacks--namely a clear plan for handling the situation in Iraq.
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