Eleanor Clift - Bless her heart

[Chimpanzee]

Ending the Fantasy

It’s hard to game the election with all the conflicting polls. But the signs are pointing to a big turnout and a Kerry win

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek

Updated: 1:45 p.m. ET Oct. 29, 2004Oct. 29 - Bush pollster Matthew Dowd, unshaven and looking weary, met with print journalists Thursday for one last spin session. For the record, he thinks the president will win, but he sounded so unconvincing that halfway through the hourlong lunch, a reporter said, "OK, so the race is very close and one or the other will win."

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When the laughter subsided, Dowd remembered his talking points and said a bit sheepishly, "The lead is that the election is very close and President Bush is going to win."

Asked to name John Kerry's biggest mistake, Dowd cited the Democratic National Convention where Kerry left himself vulnerable to GOP caricatures by not talking about his Senate career in a positive way. But that was last summer's talking point and Dowd quickly caught himself. Kerry’s biggest mistake, Dowd said, warming to the subject, could turn out to be jumping on the story of the missing 380 tons of deadly explosives out of Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363063/site/newsweek/

[Chiyo-chichi]

1. Eleanor Gee-I-think-you're-swell-anor.

[Lefty48197]

2. Thank God Tony Blankley can't interrupt her writings.

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[indigobusiness]

3. First, we have Maureen Dowd unshaven and looking weary...

now this.

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Eleanor...you're the best.

[rndmprsn]

4. i read this...

and i was moved very much...she articulated clearly much of what i have been feeling for a long time...