DEM DEBATE -- EDWARDS WIN?
Did John Edwards win last night's debate by not condescending or assuming all southerners were redneck hicks in their F-150s, and will that performance jump-start his just-short-of-competitive campaign? Here's Stinging-Nettle's take.

I think a likely scenario is that the Democrats, who have already tossed over Lieberman and Kerry, may soon decide that they can't win with Clark or Dean either, and they will look again at the remaining candidates. If that happens, there's only two real candidates left, and only one of them could pull off a victory over Bush. Gephardt and Edwards. So, which one could beat Bush? I think that's obvious.