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Kerry Continues to Sink

Here's a woeful piece (if one is a Kerry supporter) from yesterday's Boston Globe: After missteps, Kerry refocuses his campaign

Even his advisers called the performance "sluggish" and "unpresidential": Senator John F. Kerry, at a house party here on Nov. 7, left some Democrats in the room bewildered by referring to President Bush's "job-creating tax cut," calling an abortion procedure "grisly or whatever," and offering such anti-sound bites as "the road traveled is the prologue to the road to be traveled."

And then things got worse.

The next night, a Saturday, Kerry gave a rambling speech before 500 party activists in Maine; aides said afterward that he was tired. Less than 24 hours later, Kerry dismissed his campaign manager and relayed the news to his staff by telephone while at dinner.

And so we are in the midst of re-toolingm, re-launching and, oh, by the way, trailingDean in two polls in his home state.

Not good.