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OK. I haven't done any For-Kerry stuff for awhile. I really really like that he has kept his head down and worked on his foundation. He has methodically put out his positions on a regular basis; about a week at a time. He has avoided either feeding or aggravating the repub attack machine. He has avoided doing unto others what they have been doing unto him. The thing about negative campaigns is that people do not like them; they work; but people do not like them. He is doing this methodical thing which has to pay off in the long run. It would not work in the short.

The hard part about this approach is that it keeps his numbers down; suppressed them. But they have not gone down-down; they have stayed the same and now are slowly rising. This is a deliberate approach. It has to be. The atmosphere is so hostile that to be 'out there', this soon, would only create controversy and not allow anyone to get to know him.

All the 'experts' say that this election will be swung by the undecided. At this point that appears to be at most 10-20% of the hardened in electorate and you gotta figure a lot of those are just wandering repubs. This studious, head down non-fiery Kerry has to be good for slowly convincing this bloc that he has the stuff. He doesn't need to convince me.

By contrast, Gore, Dean and even Clinton played into the wind all the time and sometimes got badly blown around. Despite the great speech he gave, look how many people called Gore wild eyed this week as he put some energy behind it. Like it or not, most people do not like the noise. I think that this is wrong but it is reality.

I think what Kerry is doing is demonstrating his leadership. He is calm, cool, and collected. He is not taking any shit but he is not really aggravating it either. The repubs have shot more than half their $$wad at him and he is not only standing he is gaining. It is working.