I agree that Edwards is unlikely to endorse at this point, and if so, he would endorse Obama.  But to me, that doesn't explain what he plans on doing long term.

Does he want to be part of an Obama or Clinton Administration?  Some don't think so.

Does he want to be the Al Gore of poverty?  That UNC center of his seems to be discontinued.

If someone could answer my main question, what he should or plans to do with himself, I would love to know.

I think Obama should offer to seat Florida as is in exchange for a Michigan Caucus.  I doubt HRC would go for it, but I think asking Florida to hold another election is asking for troubles.

We were lucky that Obama lost Ohio big.  If it has been closer, you would have seen all sorts of problems under the hood.

Remember in 2000, some people floated the idea of Florida having a do-over after people learned about the Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot," the unexplainably large Jewish vote for Pat Bucchanan, the insanely narrow margin between Gore and Bush, the blockades that the FL trooper put up that "coincidentally" hampered black voters...?  

And where did that go?  Nowhere.

This year, we have the primary equivalent of Florida circa mid-November 2000.  

The only way out I see is if Obama manages to win with pledged delegates and supers, and MI and FL delegations are seated AS IS (except for "uncommitted" going entirely to him).  I don't know if that requires him to run the table from here on out (and/or get Edwards to give Obama his delegates), but that seems to be the only realistic proposition given that Obama's team is dragging their heals on a revote.

Finally, something actually pertinent to the actual thread.  What a novel concept.  

The reason this scandal is so deadly is because Spitzer ran on being a reformer that would clean Albany up.  But if he just another John or Pimp (has anyone explained what "involved in" means?), then he is just another politican and there is no reason to believe anymore.

I just hope Dems can still take back the state senate, and get Spitzer's worthy agenda passed.  Spitzer as a person, go to counseling.

Josh Romney has no real ties to Utah.

But the best part of this is that Merrill Cook, who has lost 9 out of 11 races he has run for in Utah, offered to campaign against Jim Matheson.

If I had to choose between a conference committee that radicially changed bills in secret and then forced members of Congress to vote up or down versus a "ping pong" strategy which attempted to pass identical bills in both chambers, I would pick ping pong every day, regardless of who holds the majority.

While a ping pong bill might get a closed rule in the House, there is no way a closed rule can happen in the Senate on non-appropriations bills.  That means there will be a heck of a lot more transparancy and less of a chance that senior leaders can craft laws and then force people to vote against puppies at the 11th hour.

How many houseparties has Barack Obama had? A September 14th press release said he was going to hold "hundreds" of house parties the next day.  Is that less than Clark or less than Dean during the fall of 2003?

Not only did he get arrested...HE PLED GUILTY (to disorderly conduct).

You forgot the part where he showed the cops his "business card" and said "What do you think about that?"

Man this is a carbon copy of Bob Allen.  Except the racism excuse...

The last time Dodd ran for reelection, over $2.6M of his over $7M warchest came from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate industries.  And even though he is at 1% in the polls, he gets millions from the same financial industries during his run for the White House... he gets more money from these groups than John Edwards or John McCain.  And more money from Hedge Funds and Private Equity groups than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.  

So why can we trust that this policy isn't just another pro-financial industry move?  Having Freddie and Fannie (which are partially federally owned) bail out private corporations is a terrible idea.  Why should taxpayers help out billionaires?  

"Apart from the fact that Governor Richardson has delivered for New Mexico..."  

You lost me right there.  I seem to remember that Bush won New Mexico in 2004, even though Gore carried it in 2000.  

Now Richardson has been a good governor of the state in terms of getting good things done on a state level.  But what about all those New Mexicans who got shipped off to Iraq?  Or those who suffered due to Bush's domestic policies?

Richardson failed his state by not delivering New Mexico for Kerry.

Winning matters more than delegates.  Even if the DNC strips FL and MI of delegates, the fact that a candidate won those states will mean more for Super Tuesday than the delegate count.

For example, if Hillary wins IA, NH, MI, and FL she is going to be the nominee even if Obama wins SC and gets strong seconds elsewhere to have a delegate count lead.  

Doesn't Romney own Michigan?  I thought his Dad was governor there.

Great post, but now I've got that crappy 80's song in my head.

Maybe Al could be that hero, but he doesn't seem willing to do it.  He doesn't seem to want to challenge Hillary and I don't think he has the stomach to endorse again after how disasterous his endorsement of Dean was.

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