Manos libres para Joe Trippi

Mientras Obama se come los mocos, John Edwards parece estar tomando la iniciativa como verdadera alternativa a Hillary Clinton. Como ya comenté, su estrategia, más inteligente de lo que pueda parecer, pasa por ganar en Iowa o quedar segundo para que a partir de ahí los títulares de la gran prensa digan "It's Hillary vs. Edwards", quedando Obama desplazado de la primera plana. El Washington Post se detiene hoy a analizar la creciente agresividad del candidato Edwards, y señala directamente a la cada vez mayor influencia de Joe Trippi en la planificación estratégica de la campaña. With Trippi's Rise, Some See a New John Edwards

(...) From the day he announced his candidacy in New Orleans last December, Edwards has presented himself as an outsider, someone much different from the senator who was John F. Kerry's running mate in 2004. But in recent weeks he has launched a markedly more aggressive attack on what he says is Clinton's poll-tested commitment to the status quo, and the new tone to his campaign has coincided with the growing influence of the strategist behind Howard Dean's assault on the Democratic establishment four years ago -- Joe Trippi. (...)