The Christian Science Monitor is – like The New York Times and other publications – running profile articles on the presidential candidates. This week the profile is on our man Howard Dean and the coverage is pretty good. Take a look.

After you read that you might want to turn your attention to the essay written by US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on Dean’s Southern strategy.

If Howard Dean wins the nomination around an economic agenda, and can effectively combat the certain Republican tactic of diversion--using social issues openly, and race more subtly, to sublimate economic concerns--then Democrats may once again be able to win in the South and pursue a progressive economic agenda for the benefit of all Americans.

That's Howard Dean's approach and his challenge. I support him because I think it's the right strategy politically, economically and morally.