This is the most troubling part of the article:
'Despite all the bad news out of Iraq, President Bush is threatening to make a horse race out of New Jersey, a state everyone had put in the 'safe' column for John Kerry,' said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.As always, the issue is how to not just make Bush appear unlikeable (which should be a no-brainer), but rather, how to make Kerry appear likeable.