THIS ARTICLE on Kerry’s veep choices contains the following bizarre bit:

One Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said a group supporting Kerry’s candidacy recently convened a focus group in Ohio and the participants literally sat on the edge of their seats as the group ran test ads explaining the senator’s background.

“Outside Iowa and New Hampshire, some people don’t even know he was a veteran,” the Democrat said of Kerry, a decorated combat veteran in the Vietnam War.

I realize, of course, that most people don’t pay nearly as much attention to political news as bloggers do, but can there really be many people who don’t know this?