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You could see this coming about halfway through the debate.
There are three silver linings in this cloud:
1) Are they running many flip flop ads? Ads on Iraq? If not, or if they are running a very few, it rather strongly suggests those "issues" have been defanged by the debate.
2) The fact they are going so negative shows how terrified they were. Two weeks ago Bush was arrogantly campaigning in Wisconsin.
3) They are now going nuts on the "John Kerry tax and spend liberal" approach, just as they did on the "John Kerry weak flip flopper" mantra. When the debates came, people saw the contrast between the Kerry the Bush people described, and the Kerry that is, and it was a big plus for Kerry. Their negative campaigning effectively lowered the bar. It can, and probably will, happen again when Kerry and Bush go at it over the economy, and people hear Kerry describe his own tax plan, not have Bush describe it for him.
B/C credibility is sinking like a stone, and these negative ads are not going to help.
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