Good Edwards

Well. Wasn’t that close.

Yes, Edwards is inex­pe­ri­enced, at least com­pared to Kerry (though not to George W. Bush when he was run­ning for office, Tiffany was quick to point out). Yes, he isn’t all that pop­u­lar even in his home state of North Car­olina (approval rat­ings about 40% dur­ing his one term as Sen­a­tor). But he skews young, he looks good, he’s artic­u­late, and he can talk to the work­ing classes from their point of view.

Kerry’s cam­paign needed some energy, and Edwards will add that. Kerry needed some­one from out­side Wash­ing­ton, and Edwards is a D.C. neo­phyte. Kerry needed some­one who made their mil­lions, rather than inheriting/marrying it. Edwards was the first in his fam­ily to go to col­lege. And Kerry needed some­one who could run cir­cles around Dick Cheney in the veep debate(s).

Edwards can do all that.

I hope it is enough.