Sunday morning blues

If you read today's Kerry/Bush cover stories in the LA Times, you'd think the President was up 30 points. The Kerry story was all about confusion of message and internal infighting, while the Bush story (by Ron Brownstein) was about how he has EFFECTIVELY promoted a theme of change (itself being a flip-flop) and turned Kerry's ideas into "the failed policies of the past." The notion that the incumbent is running on change, when he had four years in office and two years of a GOP Congress to change anything he wanted, should be smacked down hard, but they painted it as an asset. You can read both of them here, but they're not recommended for the faint of heart.

Oh well, at least California's not a swing state.