The Times follows the heat Kerry is taking over his contributions and the strong lead he maintains going into tomorrow's votes: While he was getting beat up, Mr. Kerry could take considerable solace in his standing in the polls, which showed him doing very well in Missouri and Arizona in particular and challenging Senator John Edwards in South Carolina. Mr. Kerry tried to deflect the newfound interest in where his previous campaign money had come from, calling it old news that would not knock him off message. This, meanwhile smacks of wishful thinking on someone's part: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman pulled in some of the key endorsements in the state, winning the backing of both The State in Columbia and The Greenville News, perhaps breathing a little life into his candidacy. Somehow I doubt these endorsements will do much more for him than the one from the New Republic and the all-but-endorsement from the Washington Post did.