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To: LindyBill who wrote (80410)	10/24/2004 9:08:59 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793913

HEWITT - Battleground has Bush up 5. Approval rating at 52%. In fact, all the data is looking better and better for Bush. Review it all at RealClearPolitics.com. And note two states in particular. Hawaii joins Michigan as a "surprise-for-Bush" state. There are others coming. The pundits are so zeroed in on their "too-close-to-call" theme that they are ignoring any contrary evidence that John Kerry's way-left liberalism, his "global test," his "nuisance" theory of terrorism, and Mary Cheney gaffes along with his wife's "real job" blunder has forced a significant separation in the race. To report such events would be to seal the casket, for as Kerry operative Michael Whouley put it in the New York Times this morning: "People waking up in these battleground states and the media telling them that the race is neck-and-neck - that's the greatest motivator of all." Note the plea for more media reinforcements. So don't look for a lot of play on the Hawaii-Michigan stories, or on the president's huge and enormously enthusiastic crowds versus the dreary turn-out Kerry received in Minneapolis last week. The elite media's got a story and they are sticking to it. In the same article, senior Kerry strategist Robert Shrum complains that the president had been "reduced to a one-note-Johnny" campaign. "He said Mr. Kerry would respond by challenging Mr. Bush's management of the war in Iraq." Of course the Kerry people don't want the election to be about the war. They want it to be about who can better appeal to French public opinion. But that's not what the election is. It is a referendum on the war on terror and how to fight it. That explains Hawaii and Michigan, and all the other surprises nine days out.