Swift Boat Blowback

Finally the numbers saner heads have been waiting for:

The public's belief that Kerry did not earn his medals grew to 30 percent when the attack ads got widespread publicity on cable news networks. But that number has dropped to 24 percent now.

Even better:

On Monday and Tuesday when the Kerry campaign was making the accusation Bush was involved, 42 percent said the Bush campaign was behind them and 41 percent said they were truly independent.

After Ginsberg resigned from the campaign on Wednesday, 50 percent said in polling the next two nights that the Bush campaign was connected to the ads and 34 percent said it was not.

Which no doubt explains the sudden Republican call to put Vietnam behind us and move on. Sadly, this comes out on a weekend, and one before the RNC. Hopefully it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.