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October 31, 2004

Shrum vs. Hughes

Kerry strategist Bob Shrum looked a little angry trying to answer Chris Wallace's questions today on Fox News Sunday. Note to the Kerry Campaign - no Bob Shrum on television for the next two days. Shrum looked defensive and nervous. The only answer he could come up with on the "377 tons" of arms was that "we sent our troops in without body armor." He then veered off to health care, jobs, etc. He had no answer to the question, and was irritated that Wallace kept bringing up national security, even though John Kerry is the one who has harped on a fraudulent New York Times story about Iraq all week long.

This was in direct contrast to Karen Hughes, when answering the first hardball question from Wallace - "Why haven't we caught Osama bin Laden?" Hughes answered "because he is hiding," and then went on to describe the continual dismantling of Al Qaeda. She seemed confident and sure of her answers.

The defensive and irritable Bob Shrum and the confident and upbeat Karen Hughes. I think this tells us a lot about where each campaign sees this race at the moment, regardless of what any public poll indicates.

Posted at 02:23 PM Pacific