Good News?

Sullivan has this on the Edwards campaign:

In both primaries yesterday, Kerry won close to a half of the votes and Edwards won around a quarter. But more interestingly, as Will Saletan points out in a must-read, Edwards beat Kerry on the question of the issues and among those in the more moderate wing of the party, i.e. those who were less angry with Bush and more in the "satisfied but not enthusiastic" camp. Edwards wins more pro-war voters as well. I infer that most Dem voters so far have been conned into voting for the idea of Kerry, not the reality. And the idea is that he is more electable. And that has become almost self-fulfilling. Edwards is therefore absolutely right to stay in. More Democrats like his views than like Kerry's (whatever they are as of 1.25 am today), and more middle-of-the-roaders support him.

We on the right have been worried that conservative disaffection with Bush was going to cause enough conservatives to stay at home to hurt Bush this fall. It could happen - stay tuned for more.

But I wonder if we might not see the same on the left - a lot of moderate Dems will be as much or more disgusted with the party nominating Kerry to cause them to sit '04 out?

Because there's a lot more to disgust a moderate about Kerry than there is to tick off a conservative about Bush.

Discuss!

Posted by Mitch at February 11, 2004 07:29 AM