American Politics

Howard Fineman said on NBC's Today show this morning that Howard Dean will effectively suspend his campaign today and begin moving toward support of John Edwards. Fineman indicated that Dean apparently has a strong distaste for Kerry as a symbol of everything that's wrong with American politics. Judging from the media coverage, Edwards now has momentum. Tom Schaller writing at Daily Kos suggests New York could hold the key on March 2. California is also that day.

UPDATE: I should also add the Edwards's Wisconsin showing was very likely due to Republican crossover support. In Wisconsin, you don't have to declare which party's primary you are voting in. They all share a single ballot. So if a Republican came to the polls to vote on a referendum or something, they could very easily just vote in the Democratic primary because it was there.