The media is trying 24X7, they are manipulating as they can, but they can't change the dialogue. The major networks stuffed the Bush speech tonight because they understand that a focus on war and peace issues will deliver a GOP Senate. It will display our President as an honest, wise and inspired leader. They are pulling out the stops, to the point of NOT covering news events that have the outcome of uniting Americans. No unified America is permissable under a Republican leader.
But they are losing. Those among us unemployed want to be hired again, by corporations, as professionals making nice incomes and enjoying strong benefits. Old folks don't believe George W. Bush would disenfranchise, starve and enslave them. Lautenberg will be defeated on game day. Harkin may lose too.