The New York Times and Washington Post are among the newspapers endorsing John Kerry this weekend. So far the cumulative circulation of the papers endorsing Kerry is five times greater than for Bush.

The NYTimes Magazine also carries one of the most depressing stories of our lifetime, a profile of GW Bush by Ron Suskind, author of the Paul O'Neill book. Suskind a very smart, energetic and thorough researcher with keen ear for the telling anecdote. The Bush he portrays is truly frightening. Blissfully detached from reality, he makes decisions according to what he calls his intuition or his faith. While intuition and faith have their functions in mental, emotional and spiritual life, it's clear that Bush's pipeline to God is mostly the voice of his shadow-dominated unconscious. But according to Suskind it gives him his most attractive quality: his certainty.

This is so scary because Bush could win reelection. Because things are FALLING APART BEFORE OUR EYES and Bush is still even or ahead in the polls. Things are falling apart so totally in every sphere that at best it's going to be a struggle to see things through, even if Kerry is elected. Even if a Democratic Congress is elected with him. But without that, without at least Kerry in the White House, we face truly apocalyptic times. And maybe that's just fine with GWB.

The Newsweek poll is another that shows Bush slightly ahead, this one outside the margin of error, particularly with likely voters. In a different poll--maybe Marist, we forget--- of over 1000 voters, Kerry was well ahead, both in raw numbers and among registered voters, but even or slightly behind within the margin of error when this same group was whittled down to people who said they were likely to vote.

It's getting hot and heavy out there on the trail, and hot buttons are being pushed on both sides. Kerry has mentioned to a reporter that if Bush is re elected, the revival of the draft is likely. If this becomes part of his campaign speeches and commercials, it could move the poll numbers.

But the hope mostly is that somehow all the efforts of people to get out the antiBush and proKerry vote will win the election, and give America a fresh start---and all of us a fighting chance.