Its time to get on message, instead of bashing Kerry 24/7
I'm sure the Annenburg Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania upholds academia's reputation for complete objectivity on political topics. /sarcasm
The coverage of Kerry's comments riducling our soldiers as dumb have lasted all of 1 1/2 news cycles. Most major news outlets didn't even play the sound clip of his actual remarks, and spent most of their coverage speculating on how the Republicans would try to cynically exploit a silly little joke. Three weeks after Foley resigned from public life, we are still listening to news reports trying to link Republican congressional candidates because they both have a 'y' in their last name. If the Annenburg center detects fewer personal attacks in Democratic ads, it is because CNN, NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC air happy to make make personal attacks on Republicans for them.
The real story of this election campaign is that the Democrats entire strategy is negativism. They specifically decided not to put out party platform. Despite endless criticism with the War on Terror in general and the Iraq front in particular, they have not suggested doing anything different. Despite endless criticism of a strong economy, they have not proposed doing anything different (and they have completely avoided talking about their plans to raise taxes). Republicans continually put forward ideas and programs. Democrats critize GWB. Who's being negative.