The thought jumps out at me as Rasmussen points out the flaw to the Newsweek and Time polls, and the other polls generally show something like this:

Bush’s two-point convention bounce is one of the smallest registered in Gallup polling history…Bush’s bounce is the smallest an incumbent president has received.

The Bastard’s gonna beat the Asshole. Kerry’s campaign might appear a little clunky, but somehow or other…

John Kerry’s campaigns are always clunky. That’s the other side to the storyline that Kerry is a “Great Closer” (his key political victories: his second go around at a House seat, his first Senate race, the 1996 Senate race, and the Democratic Primary Race) — what does he have to close for?…

… which leads me to suspect the inner-workings of “Skull and Bones”… and when I invoke “Skull and Bones”, I don’t mean “Skull and Bones” per se, but the more vast all encompassing conspiracy– The Grand Mechanized Outdoor Snark.

Jump back to the Democratic Primary season. Dean becomes the presumptive nominee, to the chagrin of the party hierarchy. The “people in the know”, the insiders are bracing themselves for Dean. Kerry is left for Dead.

At the height of the Dean campaign, the voices that said that Kerry will be the Democratic nominee? The conspirarcy theorists! Michael Ruppert and Alex Jones and Lyndon LaRouche. If you go by predictive behaviour, that means that Ruppert and Jones and LaRouche have more credibility than the pundit class.

Powerful interests saving John Kerry from himself over and over again, dragging him toward the victory line?

In the case of the Democratic Primary, Edward Kennedy swooped in and gave Kerry his campaign staff. In the case of the General Election, the Clintonistas are jumping aboard, steering the ship.

I picture James Carville, watching the Swift Boats attacks, screaming — chomping at the bit, knowing exactly how he would deal with the Swiftees.

There’s another, less spectacular way of looking at the bizarre trajectory nature of the Kerry races. In the case of the primary race … there’s something the Dean partisans did not know: the largest sector of voters, even primary voters, even caucus goers, are not really paying attention until right near the end.

… which was when Kerry’s campaign ads outshone the lackluster Dean tv ads. The Kennedy people came in at the right time. That the Vietnam Veteran (symbolism for some mightier things) as central piece in campaign wears in the general election doesn’t matter. (And, I begin to suspect that the Swift Boat Vets attack was timed not only for the natural money-flow problem of Kerry, but at a time Kerry would move away a bit from Vietnam, reinforce the idea that he’s running on his service, y’see.)

In the general race: the “Undecideds” are not paying attention until… NOW! Meaning? The Clinton people are coming in at the opportune time.

What do I make of the now exposed as patently absurd Time and Newsweek polls, then? A need to create the storyline. Truman would not have won had he not been so far behind, if that makes any sense. With the 1996 race against William Weld, my reading of old usenet files from 1996 suggests that the storyline that he had his back against the wall is a bit of a mirage. But… it’s best to create an impression of a nadir, the “Left for Dead” that the Kerry campaign punches back from. I’ll need to see if Newsweek and Time are owned by Bonespeople.

Now I’m tripping out.

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