Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards recently made a trip to New Hampshire. It was a trip to an early primary state. The good news: he did not announce for 2008 this early. The bad news: He gave in to the resistance of talking about the 2004 election. Unlike Senator Joe Lieberman in 2000, Edwards did not make any pledges or promises to wait until Senator John Kerry decides.
He resisted looking back at the reasons he and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) lost the election but quibbled with those who have said the Democrats face a values deficit or that Democrats cannot compete in the South and in rural areas. "We didn't run a campaign in the South," he said. "In the future, it's important for us to compete everywhere in the country."
Russ Pulliam of the Indy Star wrote a very nice article on Senator Bayh. At which point, I remembered that I have other stuff to do.
The Democratic Party attitude toward a Bayh or Warner nomination will be tested in Saturday's contest for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. A committee embrace of Roemer could signal a party shift to the middle. Like Bayh and Warner, Roemer is pro-life and moderate on a number of issues.
If Howard Dean wins the contest, however, moderates like Bayh will have to wonder about their place in the party.
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