Recent Bush/Cheney campaign rhetoric strongly suggests that the president's target in this debate will be John Kerry's liberal Senate voting record. The Kerry campaign should be worried; in St. Louis their candidate was as afraid of the liberal "label" as Dracula is of crucifixes and wooden stakes. Kerry's record is demonstrably, unequivocally liberal, his handlers know it, and they are petrified at the thought that the Bush campaign could use Kerry's record against him. This election is coming down to just two states — Ohio and Florida. Neither are culturally liberal and both have significant rural and exurban communities that...