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State of the States

Thursday, January 15, 2004

As widely reported, Carol Moseley-Braun today dropped out of the Democratic race, asking her supporters to line up behind Dean. Since Moseley-Braun dropped out before any of the binding primaries, she has no pledged delegates she can release for Dean.

It is assumed by most political analysts that Moseley-Braun ran primarily to repair an image tattered by scandal. If so, she succeeded admirably, casting herself as an articulate promoter of left-liberal ideas and using the publicity opportunities of her run to place herself in the public mind. (When it came to showing moderation on the matter of postwar Iraq, it didn't hurt that Congressman Karma was in the race. Next to Kucinich, George McGovern would look like a Scoop Jackson Democrat.)

Ambassador Moseley-Braun's candidacy did provide one bit of levity: the chance to watch as NOW, relentlessly pursuing its goal of total irrelevancy, endorsed her for President.

And now there are eight.