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Nor does it help that the Kerry camp seems to have lost some of the surefootedness with which it put away the competition in the Democratic primaries. Rather than jump at a chance to showcase his official military records, his team spent three days last week explaining why he hadn't made them all public, only to reverse itself and produce what turned out to be 145 pages of glowing accounts of his service. On the other hand, Kerry's team also took the unprecedented step of releasing a list of his meetings with lobbyists--and then challenging Bush to do the same.

"A lot of people don't really know who I am," Kerry acknowledged recently. At a time when voters are especially anxious, and leery of taking a gamble, Kerry had better tell them soon.

--By Karen Tumulty. With reporting by Steve Barnes/Little Rock