Ms. Clift is worried

While John Zogby and others continue to see the race for President as John Kerry's to lose (on the sensible ground, I must admit, that re-election campaigns are referenda on incumbents, and Mr. Bush's ratings are none too good), other voices point out the inherent power of the presidency to shape events- and the difficulty, in any case, of convincing the American people to turn a wartime President out of office.

But Eleanor Clift, the Far Left Newsweek columnist, goes much farther than most in suggesting, in essence, that the race is Bush's to lose.