Looks like the Bush campaign shot themselves in the foot. Taking a page from Gray Davis' playbook, they've been running negative ads against McBride, in an attempt to help Janet Reno win the nomination. Unfortunately, it just made the Democrats mad, and McBride is now moving up in the polls, and the Bush team now thinks that he'll be the nominee.

They should have stayed out of it. Unfortunately, Florida Democrats may not be as dumb as it appeared in the 2000 election. At least, they're not suicidal. But we can still hope.

That's pretty much how Sonny Perdue wound up winning Georgia's GOP gubernatorial nomination outright, in my opinion. Roy Barnes went after Perdue with about a week to go before the primary, at a time when it might have come out to a runoff between Perdue and Linda Schrenko for the nomination. Didn't work out that way.