The View on Terror Attacks and the Election

Keith Olbermann did a great analysis of this topic tonight on MSNBC's Countdown, and pointed out something the media hasn't been noticing:

* that the extreme right feels - or at least says it fears - that an attack would have as its goal to bring down the Bush Administration, happily implying (sometimes with a hammer) that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for Osama, while

* the left questions whether a terrorist attack could be used as an excuse to prolong the current administration, and the talk of possible temporary suspension of voting the last few days has fueled the fire

Keith was also the first in the media to point out that the 2001 election in NY city was definitely affected by the change in election date, helping to tip the city to newly-minted Republican Mike Bloomberg.