« To Obama, Love From Havana | Main | Sen. Larry Craig's "Lewd" Conduct In A Men's Bathroom » Edwards Rises Again. And Again.27 Aug 2007 03:21 pm Everytime someone declares John Edwards dead, he rises again. His Fighting for One America tour culiminated in a 1,000-person rally last night in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Those are Obama numbers! In New Hampshire! Where Edwards Isn't Supposed To Be Strong!) Here's an emotional moment from the event: Comments (26)
When is the filing deadline in NH? Read: when can they officially drop Al Gore from the NH polls for good? 
Well, I started sensing the shift about a month ago. Truth is, the prom is over, and as it gets closer and closer to the time to promote a candidate to nominee, more Democrats will consider Edwards instead of Clinton and Obama. In the last week, John Edwards has ticked up a little in the polls. Latest Rasmussen Survey has him 4 behind Obama (Clinton 40, Obama 21, Edwards 17), and there is another poll that just came out that has him only 7 points behind Obama. Clinton has stalled, Obama is starting to fall back to earth, and John Edwards has the most to gain from that. He now has to convince Democrats that 1) he's more electable than Hillary Clinton is, and 2) him as the nominee would help other Democrats get elected in the House and the Senate in a way that Hillary Clinton's polarizing candidacy could not. I think many Democrats in DC, whether they hate Edwards or not, don't want to lose their own jobs because Hillary Clinton is so polarizing, for the country and among Democrats. They don't trust that Obama could win. They'd rather not support Edwards, many of them, but they may if it means his candidacy will help them win. If I was John Edwards, I would be calling Democrats in Congress, and selling myself as the candidate who would have the greatest "POSITIVE" coat tails for them.
John Edwards is dealing with the real issues Americans face in a connected way; such as the stability of our homes, economy/jobs, ecology, health care, and not least our children's education. John and Elizabeth Edwards walk among us and speak honestly. If John Kerry had appreciated his running mate more in 2000 we might be looking at a different country today. Let's not underestimate his ability to contribute going forward. He is the real deal. The New Deal 2007.
Attempt #1 to snuff Edwards in the crib failed during haircut-gate. Attempt #2 to snuff him in the crib will come during Iowa. If he survives Iowa, no one's going to stop him. Not Hillary, not Rudy/Fred/Mitt. By the time everyone figures out that he's got to be taken seriously, he'll already have the WH in the bag.
Thanks so much for posting that video -- it was pretty intense.
"If you give drug companies, insurance companies, and their lobbyists a seat at the table, they’ll eat all the food,"Edwards said today in Lance Armstrong's Livestrong cancer forum. In 1860 we were in a world of trouble an we turned to a great trial lawyer. If America ever needed a great trial lawyer again, it's now. We need a fighter. So I hope the Washington Democratic insiders just take a breath and vote for the people's candidate. Our time is now. We need to win this case, not settle our of court.
John Edwards is the man. He is leading from the front on every single issue. No other dem or republican comes anywhere close to him. I will be proud to have John Edwards as my president. You go John!
So emotional. That women said it all. This is why we have to elect John president because John and Elizabeth really care about people!
John Edwards has fought for the little guys and WON! against the powerful Insurance and Pharma industries - sponsors of the corporate media. Therefore people know more about his haircuts than his brilliant health care plan. Hillary sees no urgency in universal health care and promises it in 10 years! by the end of her 2nd term - AFTER the Insurance and Pharma industries have funded her 2nd campaign - while the working poor and middle class with NO health care pay her health care costs. How long as Hillary been living off the government with taxpayers funding her health care?
John Edwards he has done his homework on the issues facing average Americans. He's sincere and the most electable of the candidates. I hope people will look passed Hillary's machine and Barack's celebrity to the substance that Edwards brings. He may not have all the answers, but I can't imagine anyone who would work more tirelessly than he to bring economic justice to our people and restore America's reputation in the world.
What Edwards said about Gonzales today, "Better late than never." I saw him at 3 events in Chicago and must say he's funny. Quick and witty and up close, very very confident and relaxed.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that John Edwards, according to Rasmussen polls, Hence, as people are starting to tune into the primaries, they are thinking seriously about who can best lead the country rather than the horse race that the media constantly harps on.
The tide has definitely turned for John Edwards - thank God! He is what this country needs so badly - some integrity, morality and backbone. Not to mention well thoughtout plans for recovery here at home and for regaining our global status as a leader - not a spoiler. John trounces all the GOP candidates in the latest Rasmussen - way ahead of Hillary and Obama.
Right message, wrong messenger. I'll give Edwards another look when and if he souljahs the party's identity-group whores seeking to lock up the latino vote with an imported underclass. Clue for fellow progressives: the fastest and most effective way to reduce poverty in the US is to introduce real scarcity into the low-end labor market by ceasing to swamp the low-end labor market with 13 million dropouts imported from Mexico.
Clue #2: at least half, and probably much more than half, of the increase in the ranks of the uninsured during the last five years is due to the extraordinary increase in uninsured, illegal immigrants-- which is also the cause for over 90 emergency rooms closing in California over the last decade and a half. Clue #3: there is no labor market on this planet that simultaneously shows a _labor shortage_ and a _jobs shortage_. Edwards rightly reminds us that millions of Americans can't find liveable wage jobs-- ie that there's a jobs shortage on the low end. The party's shills for sweatshop- and poultry factory-owners contend that there's a dire _labor shortage_. So which is it, folks? Not enough jobs or not enough workers? Clue #3.5: where there's scarcity, prices rise. Low-end wages have FALLEN since 1980. Obviously, we have a jobs shortage, made far worse than it ever should have been by this tsunami of unskilled sh*t-wage mexican labor imported since 1996.
Clue #4: word from new Orleans is that "FEMA" = "find every mexican available. Given that the ninth Ward has s.t. like a 25% unemployment rate, wouldn't it, um, make more sense if we were to fill these jobs with, y'know, native-born unemployed N.O. residents? Clue #5: we do not have an "immigration" problem. We have a broken relationship with MEXICO. Instead of NAFTA reducing illegal immgration from desperate Mexicans, as Gore claimed it would in those epic debates with Perot, NAFTA has devastated the Mexican countryside because, unbelievably, we are dumping subsidized corn into the world's biggest tortilla producer. Could John Edwards please admit that NAFTA was botched, that we need to immediately eliminate the loophole given to Cargill and ADM that results in about $2 billion worth of subsidized US corn dumped into Mexico and that has by many economists' estimates thrown at least 2 million rural Mexicans into dire poverty since 1996? Fix the problem at the source. Show some leadership, John. And some honesty while you're at it. Americans of all backgrounds-- liberals and conservatives, african-americans and ethnic white workers, middle-class latinos who made it here legally, anyone disgusted by the wrecking of our public services and public schools-- see through Tweedledum and Tweedledee's game and will not tolerate this scam any longer. Stop importing another underclass-- and start addressing the needs of our existing underclass.
Thibauld - your message is you'll support Edwards when and if he becomes a racist xenophobic know-nothing? Clue #5 - WE DON'T WANT YOUR VOTE.
Hi Frank. I'm 100% in favor of MORE immigration, by people of any color, any race, from any nation, so long as they HAVE SKILLS and EDUCATION. Got it? Could our side please stop with this idiotic pretense that opposing our broken mexican immigration policy is somehow "nativist" or "racist"? And that supporting this importation of an underclass is in any way progressive or helpful to our core constituency, working US families of any color-- including non-illegal latinos?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLieA-d3nc In the opening words of JRE's presentation at the Livestrong Cancer forum, he talks about what he heard from Nancy - the questioner in the clip from NH posted by Marc Ambinder. He says "Alarm bells should be going off all across America..." GO JRE!
I'm a 65 year old Democrat waiting for a Democrat. We have a party again. Elizabeth is Italian. Pennsylvania coal miner stock. All you Italians send John a hundred bucks. I did.
To thibaud:
thibauld - corporate outsourcing has hurt the job market more than illegal immigration, and if you think that illegal immigration is the reason for the increase in the number of those who don't have healthcare - you are off your rocker and listening to some pretty right wing talking points...
Marc, I don't think he has enough votes yet, but hope he is at least elected VP. I would like to see the day when everyone has health care coverage... it's not fair that I have it (through my work) but others are struggling because they didn't have coverage at the time of an accident or serious illness.
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Interesting. Could be an isolated incident, or could be indicative of something bigger.
Are Democratic voters exhausted by the prospect of a Hillary general election campaign and unnerved by Obama's youth and willingness to play nice with Republicans? Could be.
Still a lot of time left on the clock for Edwards to play the 2008 Comeback Kid - and it seems to me his national numbers are ever-so-slowly ticking up.
After Labor Day, things are gonna get interesting.
Posted by Will | August 27, 2007 3:55 PM