I talked to a lot of volunteers and politically active conservatives in Pennsylvannia yesterday. The consensus pretty much seemed to be that Kerry’s definitely going to take the state. However, it seems to me and some of them, that the Clinton appearance was a huge victory for Bush in the sense that Kerry used him in a state his campaign should have put away a long time ago. Because of Clinton’s heart troubles, he’s definitely a limited resource and they used it all up here.

An even more limited resource is Arlen Specter who, according to everybody I talked to (including several pro-Specter Republicans) is simply doing as little as he can for Bush. The ingratitude of that is shocking. Bush spent real political capital helping Specter get the nomination and Specter is giving next to nothing in return.