August 27, 2007 5:10PM 

# Politics Today 

By [David Boaz](https://www.cato.org/people/david-boaz) 

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The [*Washington Post* reports today](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601415.html) that John Edwards’s new strategy is to reposition himself as a “straight talker,” emulating the model that worked for John McCain in 2000. As someone said, “Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”

Meanwhile, [the *Post* also tells us](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/26/AR2007082601446.html) about the lifelong congressional insider who’s helping Barack Obama craft his image as a Washington outsider.

What a country. It reminds me of the presidential campaign manager who once told me, “We’ve made a tentative decision to run a bold campaign.”

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