TNR Online gives John Edwards an "A" for general likeability.

[yaledem]

http://www.tnr.com/primary/index.mhtml?pid=989

Current GPA standings for the month:

Clark: 1.5
Dean: 1.5
Edwards: 3.4
Gephardt: 2.0
Kerry: 2.0
Lieberman: 2.0

[chimpymustgo]

1. I give him an A+. Very nice article. Outstanding GPA.

What's the highest score you can get?

[helleborient]

2. Howard Dean leads the pack in domestic policy and foreign policy

In this article

4.0 on domestic policy

2.0 on foreign policy...not good, but better than the rest

Go Dean!

[chimpymustgo]

3. But WHICH domestic policy? As Gov or as Candidate?

Big difference you know.

[CMT]

4. probably candidate

but he had great success as a governor too which is why his state kept re-electing him.

[helleborient]

5. It's an article on the primary candidates...so I'm assuming

It's as a candidate.

[helleborient]

6. It's based on the "Success By Six" initiative in education

That is the only review of domestic policy they have given of Howard Dean.

[DemDogs]

8. Thread on Edwards likeability - no mention of Dean's likability

And no surprise there.
Listen, we all know that the Dean campaign has from early on hired people to post and gotten its volunteers to post. But really, not every thread is about Howard Dean.
This one, for example, is about how likeable Edwards is. That is pretty uniformly agreed to. So why not post on one of the seven hundred threads you all have started about your candidate? Please.

By the way, way to go Edwards!

[helleborient]

7. What an odd, odd way of rating candidates...

It seems like they add up scores based on whenever the various writers think they want to write something...the articles are on one specific statement or issue, but nothing close to comprehensive anywhere.

If you look in their categories, almost uniformly the highest rated candidates are those who have been reviewed the fewest times in that particular category.

I think there's a big grain of salt to add to their rating system. The actual articles are marginally better.