It's Super Tuesday, and if there was any doubt about the Democratic Presidential nomination before today, it will likely be gone by tonight.

If you were John Edwards and you were effectively eliminated today, would you withdraw from the race?

I don't know if I would. The primaries have given the Democrats a ton of free publicity, almost all of it good. Up until now, we've had several guys out there pounding Bush every day, and the media pumping it into everyone's living rooms. Once Edwards is gone, that will largely stop. You'll just have Kerry, who's loosened up quite a bit but still comes across as a stiff phony. And there will likely be several months before he names a running mate to double up against the White House.

On the other hand, if Edwards is going to keep running, he may need to come up with some variations on his stump speech. The four or five catch phrases he repeats over and over are wearing a bit thin. To this point, that's been understandable -- he's trying to get a simple message across for the first time to millions who haven't heard him before. But now that he's been in the spotlight for a few weeks, he needs to branch out a bit.

Also, as a reformed Diet Coke fiend, I would advise him for his own sake to break his addiction to that beverage immediately.

I still think an Edwards-Whoever ticket would fare better than a Kerry-Whoever ticket. But this could well be the day on which that point becomes utterly academic.

Get the Boz Scaggs ready again.