This is an open letter to Senator Kerry specifically, but also anybody else who has ever run for public office and is endorsing Senator Obama for President.
In just a few hours voting begins in 22 states, and a lot of people are treating Tuesday as a sporting event. That's fine, and I have no problem with that. I tend to treat the primary elections like a sporting event as well, at least on some level, and this is like the AFC & NFC Championship games all rolled into one (sorry, saving the Super Bowl metaphor for November).
Most people here seem to be poll junkies and armchair pundits in some fashion, and we spend a lot of our time promoting and predicting and hoping and even sometimes bashing candidates and those in office. Sometimes it seems like we're an over-sized version of Meet the Press.
But unlike the Sunday morning talk shows, we don't have staffers to help us frame our questions or years of interviewing experience. We have questions, but sometimes it seems like the answers or statements we get are framed just like they would be for a television audience.
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