Andrew Sullivan is sensing something that I’m sensing, too: things are moving, at least at the moment, in the President’s direction. I think the protesters are helping Bush far more than they’re hurting them, and Andrew has some other reasons:

“In all this, you can almost feel the election swinging Bush’s way a little. The swift boat smear was important in jolting the conversation, in changing the dynamic that was pointing to a Bush defeat. But Kerry’s weaknesses are also at play here. I don’t believe his convention was wasted.”