From Ryan Lizza’s campaign journal at The New Republic, on the difference between the Howard Dean and John Edwards’ campaigns:

“If Dean’s events sometimes look like the bar scene from Star Wars, Edwards’s traveling show has the feel of an Abercrombie and Fitch fashion shoot.”

And James T. Hamilton, describing his theory of rational ignorance in his new book, “All the News That’s Fit to Sell“:

“The logic of rational ignorance predicts that many viewers will not choose to learn about politics and government, a logic confirmed every day by the relatively low audience for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.”