By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Congratulations to Amanda and Shakes on their new jobs with the Edwards campaign! You can see Amanda's Molly Ivins memorial post and another one on the minimum wage increase on John Edwards' blog. There are a bunch of reasons why bringing them on board was a really nice move by the Edwards campaign. Edwards has a lot of work to do in making the netroots aware of his socially liberal views -- the same "nobody with that accent could be a liberal" stereotypes that help him in the general election hurt him in the primary. Bringing well-known feminist bloggers on board is a great way to get that message across. And since the Edwards blog will be read much more often by liberal netroots activists than tuned-out general election swing voters who may not recognize 'blogger' as a word, it doesn't harm his image with the latter group.
