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It seems as though baseball has won out over politics this week - I did overhear a co-worker saying how glad she was she had not seen any Gephardt ads lately where he talked about his parents and how hard they worked. Someone else was saying that Kerry is slipping and will never make it. And yet another that said they wanted to see Al Sharpton win - is he even running still?

Between Arnold and the Red Sox its a wonder a presidential candidate can get any attention these days. But you wouldn't know that driving the backroads of Lyme, NH, festooned in glorious fall foliage. There were nearly as many Howard Dean signs on the lawns as there were leafpeepers out and about over the Columbus Day weekend. Howard seems to have a visible advantage in this western NH Dartmouth country. But not a lot of new news has been finding its way through baseball and California.

We have only one network-affiliated (ABC) television station in New Hampshire. Our local cable systems bring us all the Boston stations, and a few from Maine, and of course the entire cluster of cable news stations, but if we want to see television news of, by, and for New Hampshire, the choice is WMUR, or WMUR (or WNDS, a local independent station with a low-budget news operation). We might say, then, that WMUR lives off the drug of campaign advertising. It gets an injection of primary election dollars that fattens its revenue column for the next four years.