4:35 p.m. Norah O'Donnell interviews Sen. John Kerry, who supports Obama. Asks him why Hillary Clinton is stronger with women, Latinos and seniors. He says, "you could turn that question around," ask why she's doing worse with everyone else. You cd point out that the divide here, statistically, is between people more likely to be informed via the Internet, and less. Women, Latinos and seniors are statistically less likely to augment their information with the Net, more likely to rely on the MSM. Anybody who gets almost his/her information from television news will not even know about the questions concerning with the New Hampshire optical scanning machines, for example.

Kerry has a nice statement, mildly stated, that Obama will "restore our reputation in the world."

N.b.: mentioning no names, but people with British accents shd not be allowed to speak on CNN or MSNBC. The BBC, yes.

4:55 p.m. Nerfball with Chris Matthews is coming up. But for the moment O'Donnell squeezes in a short interview with Liz Cheney, VP Cheney's daughter and formerly one of our State Dept people in charge of Middle East issues. Liz Cheney is appearing, of course, for Romney. Jeb Bush in FL, with Cheney a co-founder of Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which did so much to bring us the Iraq war, is also a Romney man. Barbara Comstock is now a prominent Romney spokesperson, fresh from her stint on Scooter Libby's defense fund. You might think someone on the air would notice this, since it's the kind of thing the horse-race media tend to salivate over: Bush-Cheney, or at least the worst of the entrenched among Bush-Cheney, is breaking heavily for Romney.

Why? And can they pull it out? And if so, how will they do it?