How close--and how unpredictable--is the 2004 presidential contest? Just a month ago, in the wake of the four-day salute to John Kerry's Vietnam combat record that doubled as the Democratic Convention, political analysts were declaring that given the way undecided voters were leaning, the race was Kerry's to lose. Now he appears to be losing it--or at least that slight edge he had gained. First came the Senator's latest clear-as-mud explanation of his position on the Iraq war; then, more harmfully, came the sabotage by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Just as President Bush and the Republicans take their turn...
Measure of a Tight Race
TIME POLL
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