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Gary Pearce blames stress for the John Edwards' tussle with a UNC journalist.

On his Talking About Politics blog, the Democratic political operative writes that campaign staffers are "tightly wound" at this point in an election:

Blame stress. Perspective is the first thing to go among overworked, over-caffeinated, 20- and 30-something campaign staffers. 

Still, he says a campaign can't win by "going postal." The best thing to do is apologize and laugh off coverage that you don't like.

He also questioned the Edwards campaign's response that reporters sometimes don't love Edwards. 

"Reporters aren't supposed to love you," he wrote. "They're supposed to report on you." 

Carla Babb's report on John Edwards will air tonight.

But the UNC-Chapel Hill journalism student's piece is probably already the most-watched Carolina Week segment in history, thanks to YouTube.

By Friday morning, her piece had only been viewed about 300 times online. As Dome and the Associated Press reported on it, it slowly moved up to about 2,000 by dinnertime.

Then, in a few short hours, it jumped to 20,000, then 30,000 and finally hit 53,000 shortly before midnight, thanks in part to a link from The Drudge Report.

Over the weekend, the numbers kept accumulating, in part due to coverage in The New York Times and the N&O and links from blogs.

By 10:30 a.m. today, the video had been seen 145,525 times.

A news segment from a UNC-Chapel Hill student that John Edwards' campaign tried to have pulled.