Let's go back, back in time to the summer of 2004.  Our candidate is generally ahead in the polls going into the convention and even sees a good bump when it's over.  

It's conventional wisdom that the wingnuts already had tv spots in the can to run against Hillary. But now that it's clear that Plan A is no longer operative, they are about to switch direction.  What does the media genius behind the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth  and Accuracy in Media have in store for Barack Obama?  Dana Milbank at the Post gives us a preview and it ain't pretty.

That's 15% of the "stimulus" check I'm expecting this week.  I'll bet you can send him at least 5% of yours. We need to push Obama over the top and move on to John McCain.  He needs a big number to end the month of April and to finally put an end to this overripe primary fight.  

When Obama won Iowa, the Clintons came to realize, through Mark Penn's micro trend analysis, that the only way they could beat Obama's charisma and the optimism he brought to the Democrats was to slice and dice the electorate in an effort to systematically prove and, by definition, insure that Obama would not be able to win the general election.