The man who would be dean

Chris Cillizza describes how our friend Joe Trippi bonded with Elizabeth Edwards and how, as a result, Edwards is running a more stridently leftist campaign that’s tuned in “to the anger and passion of the Netroots.” John Edwards makes a cameo appearance in Cillizza’s piece when a former colleague of Trippi’s from Howard Dean’s campaign explains that “given a malleable candidate, [Trippi] will have an enormous impact.”