I have to say Obama is unlike anyone we have seen in the dem party in decades. That's not to say his ideas are unique, or even better than anyone else's. What I am saying is that he does a far better job of communicating them and getting people enthusiastic about them. Edwards may actually have been better in a lot of ways, but for reasons I can't fathom, he just never caught on with the voters.

If things hadn't gone so horribly wrong in the past 7 years, perhaps Obama wouldn't be doing anywhere near as well as he is now. However, the voters are totally fed up with politics as usual, and tired of divisiveness and wedge issues and smear tactics. Obama has not only talked the talk but walked the walk on change, and people are responding to it.