Maybe I need a tinfoil hat folks but here is how I see it. This much we know, the last 2 1/2 weeks before Iowa Kerry recieved 98% positive press and Dean recieved 58% positive press. We also know via the WPO yesterday that Kerry and Bush get the same percentages of thier funding from special interest groups. In both cases, both are very indebted to the drug companies, the media, and the oil companies. So, my speculation is that these fat cats realized that Bush may not be a lock for re-election after all, especially if Dean is the Dem nominee. They then use their corporate media arm to subvert the process and insure that either way they stay in control of the reins of government.
We of course, are told we must line up behind Kerry, because if we don't women will lose the ability to have control over thier own fates along with thier bodies, and people of color will lose what little ground they have managed to gain over the years. Meanwhile, on the other side there is growing discontent over fiscal mismanagement, erosion of individual liberties, and the growth of big government. However, they likewise have to vote for Bush or more innocent babies will be slaughtered, and the distruction of the moral fiber of the nation will continue unabated.
As both sides wrestle to the death over these issues, it is buisness as usual. The oil companies will continue to run our foriegn policy, labor here and around the world will be exploited more and more, and the elderly will continue to have thier very lives held for ransom by the drug companies. Not to mention that big media's ability to control what information the public has access to will no doubt continue to grow as well.