Hear, hear, Jamie, abortion is simply not an issue in the campaign and there are indeed many sites where personal views can be made known.

Chris Lynch provides an excellent chronology of a catastrophe covering the Kerry campaign’s stellar performance in August.

I completely agree with Mr. Peasant’s post above, that from this point forward the main DNC interest will be protecting the downticket. No one (at least in modern times) has ever recovered from the point that Kerry has managed to reach. As Mr. Peasant has cogently observed, public polls are a lagging indicator of results already known to the insiders via private non-dislosed polls. I expect to see the DNC redirect advertising dollars from the presidential campaign to still salvageable Senate and House races very soon. I also expect that Dem office seekers will keep a very, very respectable distance from Kerry as the campaign continues. His spatter radius at impact is still unknown even though the trajectory and increasing velocity hint at a rather decisive conclusion.