All eyes are on Iowa this week (with a few flirty glances to Washington, D.C.) and the Des Moines Register has endorsed John Edwards.

[...] Howard Dean's call to "take our country back" is the rallying cry.

Dean has the slogan, but it is Edwards who most eloquently and believably expresses this point of view, with his trial-lawyer skill for distilling arguments into compelling language that moves a jury of ordinary people. He speaks of there being two Americas.

"One America does the work, while another America reaps the reward. One America pays the taxes, while another America gets the tax breaks. If we want America to be a growing, thriving democracy with the strongest middle class on Earth, we must choose a different path."

If Edwards wins the nomination, voters this fall would have a choice between two men who almost perfectly embody the rival political philosophies in America today. [...]

Good for John Edwards. I haven't understood why he hasn't done better, especially when compared with Kerry and Lieberman.