By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
From the Financial Times:
John Kerry's election team is to suspend advertising during August, opening itself to what it expects will be a barrage of attacks from the Bush-Cheney campaign.The 527s will pick up where Kerry/Edwards has left off. And they won't have near the restraint that the Kerry/Edwards team would have had to display in order to appear "moderate." This is actually a pretty smooth move for the Democrats. The 527s get to go on the attack while the Republicans have to play nice for a month.
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After a debate with his senior advisers, Mr Kerry has opted to "go dark" in the weeks after the Democratic National Convention to conserve limited federal funds for the weeks immediately before the November 2 election.
The decision was a "risky step", Mary Beth Cahill, the Kerry campaign manager, acknowledged yesterday.
The Kerry campaign hopes that the convention, which opened in Boston yesterday amid boasts of unprecedented party unity and discipline, will help introduce Mr Kerry to an electorate that feels it knows little about him.
If this strategy backfires, it will be fingered as the reason for a Kerry loss. There are many reasons why Kerry will lose this election, but this is the one that the Democrats will focus on the most. Assuming of course, it isn't close and therefore they can't cheat.
