Once again, the news media is desperately, desperately trying to take John Edwards’ impressive second-place showing, this time in Wisconsin, and turn it into a story almost as important as the win itself. CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the early wire stories last night and this morning — they’re all blatantly saying that “we need another couple of weeks of a Democratic campaign, so we say Edwards is competitive on Super Tuesday, at least in Ohio, Georgia, and New York.” Meanwhile, some Democratic leaders such as Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell are saying that the Wisconsin results mean it’s time for the nomination fight to end and Democrats to coalesce around Kerry. Wrong. If the media want to devote more sloppy, wet, wall-to-wall-coverage kisses to Democrats, this time in key states such as Ohio, why would the party say no?