I seriously doubt Kerry will

win the election. The media seem to be doing their darndest to paint Kerry as breathing down Bush's neck, but in

driving from Florida to Texas and back, and in speaking to a lot of people, I haven't heard of much support for

Kerry at all at the grass roots level.

It's sort of like the violence in Iraq. Very few people over there are

actually being killed (in a country of 24 million, the deaths are only in the low thousands). Most people go about

their lives and their situations are gradually improving. Do the media report that? No. They focus on the

terrorist attacks.

But you can tell there is less and less for the media to write about because every new story

recaps the previous three stories.

Take the situation with Bush's tax cut. Some media reports claim that it

favored the rich. However, two thirds of the tax cut benefitted middle class and low-income people, and two-thirds

of the people who benefitted from the tax cut were middle class and low-income people.

How is it, then, that the

tax-cut "favored" the rich? That's just political spin being picked up by the press.

Most sources seem to

agree that the tax-cut didn't create jobs as promised, but they don't bother to explain how raising taxes on the

rich and lowering taxes still further for the low-income and middle class people will create more jobs. If your tax

bill is cut by $1,000 more, how many people will you plan to hire in the coming year?

There is no meat to the

media coverage. No meat usually means no upset.

Kerry needs a miracle to win the election. I don't see one

arriving in the next week, but then, a week can be a very long time.