Simon and Garfunkel are amazing.

Latest polling from the Washington Post:

Bush job approval:
approve 48
dissaprove 50

Election (registered voters)
Kerry/Edwards 46
Bush/Cheney 46
Nader/Camejo 4

Election (general population)
Kerry/Edwards 46
Bush/Cheney 45
Nader/Camejo 5

What's really fascinating are the "who do you trust to do a better job..?" questions:

a. The economy: Bush 43 Kerry 51
b. The situation in Iraq: Bush 47 Kerry 47
c. The US campaign against terrorism: Bush 51 Kerry 42
d. Immigration issues with Latin America: Bush 38 Kerry 42
e. Education: Bush 40 Kerry 50

Kerry has made major inroads on the numbers in terms of dealing with the situation in Iraq when compared with Bush. He's still down overall on the "terrorism campaign"...but in my opinion that's more of an issue framing problem than anything else. Kerry has to frame that issue in such a way as to show the American people that this isn't and can't be a "war on terrorism".

It's groups of extremists that need to be dealt with as the criminals they are. And it's also a matter of working with the cultural and social issues in the various regions that are the root causes of developing these young Arab men to terrorists. In addition the major policy changes in the US away from the Bush Doctrine to the traditional method of dealing with foriegn nations of inclusion and working together is also important for Kerry to continue to stress.