The battle for the Great Lakes

摘要

One of the better ads in this campaign is the National Rifle Association's poodle poster, which pops up in gun shops around the Great Lakes. A delicate little dog with a bow and a blue waistcoat bearing a Kerry logo is attempting to point like a hunting dog. "That dog don't hunt", crows the tagline. This week the national campaign entered its final phase, with both sides throwing off any previous restraint. John Kerry unleashed a torrent of attacks, implying, among other things, that the president was denying Americans flu vaccine (see box on next page), planning to bring back the draft and plotting to get rid of pensions. George Bush denounced this scare-mongering, but both he and Dick Cheney, the vice-president, continued their own hard pounding on Mr Kerry's unsuitability to lead the nation.