Nation:Between the Lines

摘要

With about Ioo days to go until Nov. 6, campaign veterans spy a rarity in presidential politics: both the Obama and Romney operations like their chances of winning... The phrase used consistently by each side: "I would rather be us than them"... That is a shift from the recent past, when the McCain, Kerry, Gore and Dole camps all projected the air of fretful underdogs at this stage... Two seminal new television commercials from the President's team perfectly capture both the incumbent's expectation of victory and his awareness of his vulnerabilities...