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2008 campaign loses a voice for "the other America"

By Chris Kromm
January 30, 2008 - UPDATE: I cross-posted this at DailyKos and it's generating some interesting discussion. It's fitting that former N.C. Senator John Edwards will be heading to New Orleans today to announce his exit from the presidential race. With Edwards' departure, the still-ravaged Gulf Coast will lose its most passionate -- maybe its only -- advocate in the 2008 campaign.

Yearly Kos ignores the progressive South

By Chris Kromm
April 12, 2006 - On June 8-11, left-of-center blog-followers from across the country will be gathering in Las Vegas -- not for a round of binge gambling in despair over the direction of the country, but to attend the Yearly Kos convention.