With his nation-wide victories and Super Tuesday, John Kerry has pretty much become the presidential nominee of the Democratic party even though the election is still eight months away. That's a long time for a campaign. Hopefully, this long election season will dilute the impact of the hundreds of millions of dollars of negative advertising that both sides will run to try to shape our attitudes towards the two candidates. We urge all who are interested in public education to pay close attention to the pronouncements of both candidates on education issues. We will.