Election Coverage

[richlevy]

I just saw Richard Clarke on Hardball. Matthews drilled into him but Clarke did not rattle at all. He was clear and concise, stuck to facts, and refused to be drawn into any misstatements. He also mixed in praise at the same time he was bringing up negative facts about the White House performance.

The White House is in political trouble.

And yet on Scarborough Country, Scarborough runs a 'Kerry in Free Fall' segment where he is corrected by both of his guests, one of them an analyst Scarborough himself declares a neutral party. The analyst correctly stated that while Kerry's 10 point increase in negatives should be of some concern, the fact that Kerry is running anywhere from 3 points behind to 1 point ahead in polls with a %3 margin of error after the White House has dumped on $20 million dollars of campaign ads even before the Democratic primary is over is NOT what anyone would define as freefall.

Unless Ms. Rice can pull a Perry Mason moment, (or better yet a Scooby Doo moment) and expose Richard Clark as some evil gremlin from outer space, the White House is going to have to dump some more tens of millions of dollars in the next month to keep from hemorrhaging.

Of course, considering their donor base, this basically amounts to cab fare.