Campaign Fog

"Many Democrats are mystified by the direction of the Kerry campaign. If you look at the last several months ... and you look at the Abu Ghraib scandal, and the war in Iraq not going well, and a sluggish economy, and job losses in swing states like Michigan and Ohio - you'd say Kerry should be ten points ahead now ... The fact that we're talking about Vietnam, not Iraq, is an indication of Kerry's failure to present the campaign on his terms." - From "Kerry's Brain" in the Sept. 20 New Yorker