Reply #5: I'll make a deal with you [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

After I finish making this post, I will go to www.clark04.com and click on eBlocks, and start making more calls to Tennessee and Virginia for Clark. How about you do the same after you read my post?

Because Clark has been so underplayed by the media since one week before Iowa, a strong showing by Clark on Tuesday would be a very fresh story for the media. Edwards as "the surging number two" has gotten stale. If Edwards manages to squeak through on Tuesday he will be reaffirmed as the Kerry alternative, but there will be no new news value in that. The race will be seen as being on auto pilot, with Edwards being able to do marginally better in the South but Kerry running strong nationwide and well on his way to the nomination.

However if Clark does well on Tuesday, that means he will have stolen Edward's thunder which WILL make news, because so many had written Clark off as dead weeks ago. With Dean being seen as continuing to fade, and with Clark scoring higher than Edwards already in the Wisconsin polls, the attention will shift to a Kerry vs. Clark match up and Clark will FINALLY get the serious attention that the media has tried to deprive him of.

It will become a whole new ball game with a fresh story line, the only potentially fresh story line that can threaten Kerry other than a Dean upside shocker in Wisconsin. Hey, if Kerry can quote Bush with his "Bring it on!" quote, I can quote Edwards about the possibility of turning this whole race around by getting Clark over the top in Tennessee and Virginia. Remember this, as we head off to make our phone calls, "We can do this, you and I."