If David Brock can really put
$40 million together to start "defining" John McCain, that would go a long way to raise my confidence about a Democratic victory in November. McCain's doing very well in the polls, but in my view it's an open question how much of that is simply a result of the fact that the majority of Americans have never heard McCain criticized from the left.
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