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I was watching the local 10 O'clock new on UPN and was kind of impressed. Political coverage was given slightly more time than the weather, which is pretty unusual. For the President, no political news is good news, especially with the stories about his draft dodging (which is damaging regardless of whether or not he was AWOL while in the National Guard) getting picked up by the main stream press. It seems that the character hits get more attention than policy disagreements. Which makes sense, I mean, Maureen Dowd has been telling us for years that policies and facts are booooooring and we should instead focus on something juicy, like SEX or maybe some pop culture refrences. The AWOL charge falls short of this, but it is something that peopel seem to grasp more readily than the economic effects of a budget deficit. If these keeps up he could be in real trouble.