North Carolina’s Senator John Edwards will stand beside John Kerry as the Democrat’s candidate for vice president. After much speculation, the choice of Edwards was confirmed on Tuesday morning to be cemented on a stage in Pittsburgh by John Kerry.

It’s common that the choice of running mate, at the moment of the announcement, ends up being less a story about the prospective vice president and more a story about the candidate, Kerry, how he makes decisions, and what the choice says about him as a potential leader.

Americans will ask, is Edwards a good choice as running mate for Kerry? Will he help the Democrats?

Guests:

David Greenberg, Presidential Historian and Professor of History and Political Scientist at Yale “Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image”

Rob Christenson, Chief Political Writer and Columnist for The News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina

Darrell West, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University