Edwards has announced an impressive plan to cut taxes on working and middle class families, while restoring a higher rate of taxation for the wealthy to pay for his middle class tax cuts.

AP, however, makes this dumb analysis:

By calling for tax increases for the wealthy, Edwards risks opening himself to criticism that he's a tax-and-spender in the mold of Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic presidential nominee who said he would raise taxes. In the election, Mondale suffered a 49-state defeat, losing everything except his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia to President Reagan.

Mondale said specifically he was going to raise taxes on EVERYONE, not cut taxes on the middle class, but that distinction is lost on the AP writer. For the record, Gallup at other polls show that two-thirds of the public think the wealthy and corporations are paying too little in taxes.