Dean offered to hate George Bush for the voters. That is a stupid campaign.
Look at how a master offers to do things for the voters. Reagan offered to get governemnt off your back. To set voters free to do as they pleased. That is a lot differenct than offerering to reduce the size of the federal government.
Reagan never offered to get the economy growing as his prime reason to cut taxes. Reagan offered to cut your taxes so you could keep more of YOUR money. He was going to do something for you.. not the economy in general.
Politicians who fail to understand that they must offer to do things for individual voters that the voters can relate to directly will always be defeated by those who do.
But remember that just weeks ago the media was driving Kerry down in defeat and building Dean up.
And if Kerry was a dead duck in the polls just 10 days ago, will Lieberman be a dead duck a week from now.
What I do know is that for 200 years or more the candidates that offered to do what the public wanted done have won. Those that attack or offer no alternative policiees to those they oppose lose.
So far no Democrat has offered a clear alternative policy to those of President Bush. They offer to fight him, they do not offer an alternative plan for the economy or national security. That is not a winning prescription.
What we do know is that with caller Id, telephone polls tend to be in error. We know that until the very end, the media did not have a clue about what was happening in Iowa.
What makes us think they know what is happening anywhere else.