Rather than arguing, as does the NYT here On the Attack: Republicans Pack Punch. Democrats Take It. (For Now)

It just seems that the Republicans are, today at least, more adept at the black art of attack politics, according to historians and flummoxed Democratic partisans.

I have a simpler explanation for why the Dems had a rough August: they don’t have a very good candidate.

As usual, an article about the mean streak in the GOP is mostly a re-run of Lee Atwater vignettes, as if he ran every Republican campaign in the modern era.

Despite the thesis put forth in the piece, it does end on the correct note:

“Who’s worse?” asked Fred I. Greenstein, a presidential scholar at Princeton. “It depends on what day it is.”