A Man Says To The Universe: I Exist! The Universe Replies..

From NBC's First Read:

John Edwards took a shot at Clinton and Obama's dispute -- telling the National Urban League convention in St Louis:

"If you’re looking, if you're looking for what’s wrong in Washington, why the system is broken, why the system doesn’t work, one perfect example is what's been happening over the last four days. We’ve had two good people, Democratic candidates for president, who’ve spent their time attacking each other, instead of attacking the problems that this country’s faced.

“I got your attention with that one, didn't I?”

Comments

Is that the new title of this blog?

Lame. Especially in light of a new poll that has Edwards still leading in Iowa.

Posted by Joe Justice | July 27, 2007 1:02 PM

Yeah right...Edquards missed a great chance to define himself during the monday night debate. He should have really laid into Clinton while chastising or perhaps clarifying Obama.

Posted by samuel doe | July 27, 2007 1:47 PM

Yeah right...Edquards missed a great chance to define himself during the monday night debate. He should have really laid into Clinton while chastising or perhaps clarifying Obama.

Posted by samuel doe | July 27, 2007 1:57 PM

Excpet that they weren't attacking each other. they were debating a legitimate policy dispute. thats what politics and especially primaries are supposed to be about.

does john edwards think that debating legitimate policy disputes is whats wrong with washington? i would argue the exact opposite. HRC and Obama have not gotten personal. They havent attacked each other's patriotism or committment to their country. They just have a disagreement about policy.

Posted by freaktown | July 27, 2007 2:24 PM

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Posted by Voterz | July 27, 2007 3:18 PM

Freaktown - I'm not so sure Obama and Clinton were debating policy and approaches, as I wrote in a later blog. I think it was more a contest of which campaign could get out the better soundbite, thus maneuvering the opposition toward an untenable position - and Obama won, but not decisively.

Back to this blog, I do think Edwards problem is that he needs the discussion to stay on his populist themes. If it moves to national security and foreign policy, he is out of his best talking points, and like Clinton he does have that war vote hanging over his head.

Edwards isn't out of it yet, and he still has hope that he can pull a win in Iowa and start moving forward from there. But its such a longshot.

The dynamic here is the 35 percent of the party that wants Clinton, and the 55 percent that doesn't. The race here is for another candidate to grab as much of that 55 as he can, while also competing for his share of the odd 10 percent.

If Edwards resurges, it won't mean cutting into Clinton's 35 percent but rather taking points out of the other 55-10. That probably will make it a lot easier for Clinton to walk into a nomination with a plurality in early primaries.

If Edwards doesn't and neither Richardson, Dodd or Biden starts moving up, Obama probably walks away with this.

Edwards only shot seems to be for Clinton to continue making the mistakes she's making (putting that odd 10 percent truly up for grabs) and consolidating his and Obama's current support. This means a complete Obama implosion, because Obama certainly will have the resources otherwise to put up a fight in any state.

Its a long shot, but one I suppose he has to play out.

By the way, it suddenly makes sense why Clinton allowed herself to be caught push-polling about Edwards $400 haircuts, doesn't it? She doesn't need to win his supporters. Its more in her interests to keep her supporters fired up, and thus continue to prop up Edwards as a second anti-Clinton, to avoid Obama consolidating. I'm guessing we'll see more Clinton tricks aimed at Edwards for just this reason - make him seem relevant and keep his supporters mad and in the fight.

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