DOH!

Here's an interesting article from the Washington Times.

It seems that Kerry's staff are good at prediciting poll results. Unfortunately, theye are predicting them in favor of Bush.

Washington TImes:
Tad Devine, Sen. John Kerry's senior advisor, told the Washington Times that he does not think that the Swift Boat veterans' ads, which attacked Kerry's Vietnam War record, have hurt the campaign.
"Fundamentally, I don't think they reshaped the race at all," Devine said. "If they did, the president would be 10 points ahead, not in a dead-heat horse race."

Time: Bush 52, Kerry 41
Newsweek: Bush 54, Kerry 43

Doh!

While we're in the business of looking at past bad statements, when a high-level GOP strategist told me in Boston that Bush was going to have a good August, I thought it was spin. I questioned whether the late summer month, when many people are on vacation, was the right time for a candidate to have "a good month."

As Kerry's campaign began to sputter, I began to wonder if the prediction was half right, in that Kerry was having a bad August, but Bush's was just okay.

Well, my skepticism was unnecessary. George W. Bush just had a great August, and September doesn't look too bad, either."

The Kerry Spot on National Review Online: "DOH! [09/04 01:38 PM]