"I vote with Andrew," Newsweek correspondent Howard Fineman quickly added. "Listening to talk radio in Ohio, that's all they were talking about: Teresa Heinz."

The negative assessment came after both Sullivan and Fineman offered predictions that Bush was in trouble in battleground states. For months, Sullivan has openly backed Kerry on his daily blog.

While disagreeing that Heinz Kerry was a disaster, NBC's Andrea Mitchell acknowledged that her remarks sounded like "a put-down of little people."

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