Worth repeating.

Krugman...

...Mr. Edwards, far more than is usual in modern politics, ran a campaign based on ideas. And even as his personal quest for the White House faltered, his ideas triumphed: both candidates left standing are, to a large extent, running on the platform Mr. Edwards built.

There's a point where some campaigns, faced with certain electoral failure, execute an 11th hour transition into a campaign not for nomination, but for the proverbial "soul of the Party." In Edwards' case, that was his starting point.

From his announcement in New Orleans' 9th Ward to the conclusion of his active campaign in the same spot, he put poverty on the political agenda this year, and with it the corresponding need for policies that fight poverty by expanding the middle class. He made including everyone the standard for health care policy by being there first. He put "labor union" back in the Democratic lexicon from the beginning with a campaign strategy that failed in no small part because of the loss some hoped for union support at critical junctures.

He reminded us who we are, as Democrats, and what we're supposed to be about.

Thanks again, John.