"I think we are getting the message out there," Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie said. "But I think we have to overcome . . . the glass-half-empty argument" of the Democrats.
Dude, the glass isn't just half-empty... it's been smashed on the ground into little pieces and stepped on by bare feet which are now bleeding.
Anyway, perhaps it's not surprising that an article called "October is unkind to Bush / Bad news piles up during days leading to the election" is getting published now. But the fact that it's getting published in an Arizona newspaper is quite something.
Could an October surprise have already hit President Bush?
Troubling headlines, coupled with his opponent, Sen. John Kerry, performing well in the first two debates with Bush, may have turned a Bush advantage of mid-September into an October clinch.
Just over three weeks before the election, Bush is not running against Kerry as much as against events that are largely out of his control.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Anyway, we shall see. It's too close to call.
