[hchutch]

In a sense, I agree, but at the same time, when you had the Dems pretty much all but making open threats to politicize this matter, I'd bet that was able to back Kennedy and O'Connor off the court.

The Dems, it is safe to say, have continued their pattern of learning from their past defeats far faster than conserrvatives seem to. And as such, they are always ready to give us hell.

The only thing left to do is to adjust the rules of enaggement to deal with this in future elections. We need to take things to the Dems, and we have to hope that we can get a few breaks going our way.

It's also time for Doug Forrester to make some appearances with the King of All Media.

[Kenny]

Here's what I see happening:
The Dems have been able to launch a major campaign against Forrester and it's been free! The media have covered this circus in a big way showing Dems saying things like "Forrester could only campaign as not being Torecelli", etc. They also screamed that Forrester was trying to stop the ballot switch because he didn't want the N.J. sheep to have a "choice". They claimed he could only win if he had no real opponent. The N.J. sheep have digested this propaganda thus Forrester's negatives are up and he now trails in polls. I think that this free press was a major part of their plan all along. That coupled with the fact that Lautenberg is coming into this race squeaky clean (because no one has been campaigning against him) and it's no wonder the polls are the way they are.