On Morning Edition he sounded all the right notes. He sounds soooooo "straight talking common man" - he's like a moderate/populist version of Feingold. He has a skill for cutting through the BS. I like Tester a lot, too, but he's just a bit too folksy for his own good almost. Spitzer is brilliant, and a potential future president, but he's a little too NY. Right now, the Democrats need to come across on national TV as a party that is not northeastern.

Webb needs to get lotsa air time. Webb's emphasis is populist. He may be way to my right on military and foreign policy (though he's got enough common sense to have opposed the Iraq debacle early), but he emphasizes again and again that the most important problem in our nation right now is the class stratification that has accelerated in the past few years (speeding a three decade trend). This theme, which Webb sounds & Edwards sounds, is the correct theme, both morally and electorally for the Democratic Party at this point in history.

On culture wars and (hard as it is for a peacenik like me to admit) on foreign policy, we need to be a big tent party.

On economic justice, we need to speak with one clear, loud voice.