Terrye,

I would like to second what DtP has been saying: it’s pointless to pay too much attention to the polls. These polls are highly rigged, as Samuel says, to get the outcome they want to get and we all know which outcome they want to get at this time.

Above all else, let’s remember that we continue to have a federal system and so it is the electoral college which matters. Now this tells me, with far greater accuracy than any poll, what the outcome of the electoral college is likely to be. When you examine the map referenced, you’ll notice that Bush at this point has a pretty solid lock on Ohio, and Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida all appear to be in the Bush camp, while New Hampshire is too close to call. While Iowa and Florida are hanging on by a knife’s edge, my money is on Florida going to Bush, which, with Ohio, seals the election.

Bush’s lack of public speaking ability is unfortunate, the MSM pro-Kerry spin is unfortunate, but when you come right down to it none of this is a deal-killer. Still, I think the point that chuck was making yesterday and Roger is making today is that there is no point in the Bush camp’s becoming complacent at this time. It ain’t over till it’s over.