<p>On Tuesday Sen. John Kerry racked up his 16th, 17th and 18th victories out of 20 primaries and caucuses, reinforcing his stand as front-runner for his party's nomination and ceding nothing--no close calls, no hustings embarrassments--to Sen. John Edwards.</p>
<p>We know who the Dean voters were, and we could picture them--kids at the MeetUp, people entering politics for the first time. And we have a sense of who the Edwards voter is--someone who is still shopping, who is drawn to his sunny indignation or his Southernness. But who are the Kerry voters? The reigning cliché is that they're simply Democrats who want to win, who've settled on him as the guy who can beat George W. Bush. I think of them as union operatives, union leaders, savvy teachers union communications directors, party operatives and party donors. Which is to say the party establishment that Howard Dean threatened and John Edwards has not so far succeeded in seducing. But when Democrats are on fire over the electability of a man and not the man himself--well, if I were a Democrat I'd worry about that down the road.</p>
