Democrats , Vote or Die style, register people to vote on street corners and they are engaging Americans, doing the patriotic thing or whatever. Republicans register people and sell them on their ideas and it is some kind of sinister Rovian plot. Or so is my quick read of E. J. Dionne today. And, it is a sad day for America. The mourning Dionne takes insppiration from John Edwards’s bizarre, angry concession. (Memo to John Edwards: You lost the primaries, remember? It wasn’t all about you.)