John Edwards

Alla bloggare visste att John Kerry skulle välja John Edwards långt innan pressen visste det, tack vare följande intressanta blog Det visar hur bloggar håller på att få samma effekt inom tidningsvärlden som Skype inom telefonbranschen.

Här är en bra analys av Edwards.


The Kerry campaign thus far has been mainly a negative one, harping on that Mr Bush had wrecked the economy at home and trashed America’s reputation abroad. Now, Mr Kerry has picked the very distillation of optimism to join his team. The southern charmer’s pitch in his presidential run was to end the system of “two Americas”, one for the rich and one for everyone else. Mr Kerry took up that very theme in announcing his decision to pick Mr Edwards on Tuesday, declaring his goal to make “one America for all Americans”. America is not one yet: it is still bitterly divided between Republicans and Democrats, and polls have Messrs Kerry and Bush running neck-and-neck. It remains to be seen whether Mr Edwards’s sunny demeanour is enough to help Mr Kerry pull away from the incumbent.


Min egen analys är att detta kommer att hjälpa Kerry men inte nog för att vinna. Bushs och speciellt Cheneys allt mer brutala uppträdande den sista tiden tror jag visar att de kommer att använda vilka medel som helst för att vinna, inklusive utbrett valfusk.