Newsweek Cover Boy

We'll confess that we really haven't taken the candidacy of John Edwards all that seriously. But there he is on the cover of the new Newsweek as "the sleeper" candidate of Iowa. We'll know the evening of January 3rd whether his crackerjack organization, especially in Iowa's rural precincts, was able to trump Hillary's and Obama's star power. The Newsweek cover article reminds us, too, of Edwards populism, which we applaud.