The Washington Post has an interesting piece today about old friend Joe Trippi, the campaign manager for former Gov. Howard Dean's meteoric presidential campaign of four years ago.
Trippi is now senior advisor for the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards but, says the Post, has quietly emerged as the defacto manager of the Edwards effort, adroitly burnishing Edwards' image as the outside-the-beltway candidate in the race.
The Post says Trippi's increasing influence in the Edwards camp is the result of a bond established more with Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, that with the candidate himself. Both are struggling with health issues -- cancer for her, diabetes for him -- and both have come to view this race as being a cause as much as a campaign. To read the Post piece, click
here.
A lot of Dean backers from '04 blame Trippi for mismanaging the campaign and causing Dean's fall in Iowa. On the other hand, where would Dean have been without him? What do you make of Joe's taking over the controls of the Edwards campaign?
-- Sam Hemingway