Edwards will build momentum over next week......

[jmoss]

I believ he will solidify himself as ONLY other viable candidate.

I cannot wait to see a debate b/t Edwards & Kerry (i.e., without Dean there), and hope for a repeat performance of Sunday from both candidates. It was about time JRE's gloves came off!!!
:-) :-)

[sadiesworld]

1. I agree.

The media will continue pushing Edwards and bashing Kerry. And Karl Rove will be rubbing his hands with glee. We will have the one candidate who was stupid enough to vote for the war AND has no military experience or significant foreign policy credentials. I give up.

[KittyWampus]

2. Yup, Media Will Do Everything Possible To Laud Edwards

It is so obvious.

[AP]

3. That study that everyone was citing yesterday showed that the media

is still giving short shrift to him (by volume of stories) and they refused in January to talk about Edwards's policies, personality, or to talk about him in general political discussions, which they do for Dean.

They talk only about him campaigning. His policies and his personality happen to be his two strongest suits, but the media studiously avoided talking about both in January.

See pp.19 &20.

[disenfranchised]

4. What does military experience have to do with the war vote?

I'm not trying to be confrontational. I just don't get the connection.

Kerry had war experience (i.e. knew the horror of war 1st hand) and voted for the war.
Edwards had no war experience and voted for the war.
End result = 2 voted for the war.

Why is one vote any different from the other?

[Nashyra]

5. I'll be making as many phone calls for Kerry

as I did for Clark. Edwards does not have the foreign policy experience or the legislation experience. He has not proved that he can win the south. Edwards is a GOP dream come true.

[sadiesworld]

6. Rove will base his strategy on fear and terror, we will be bombarded

with photos of, and rhetoric about, the "war president". Iraq will be a disaster. I believe we need someone who has real pictures of himself during wartime, or at least someone who can say he wasn't gullible enough to fall for W's Iraq lies. Both would be great, but that guy is gone.

[AP]

7. If we fight 2004 only on issue of war, Republicans will win. Democrats

need to talk about what matters in people's lives: middle class opportunity. Kerry has barely anything to say about that issue. Many voters will see little reason to get out to vote for the difference in two candidates who think national security is the only issue that matters in people's lives.

[disenfranchised]

9. Thanks for the explanation.

[54anickel]

8. I think Edwards will do well here in Wisconsin.

On the local Milwaukee news after the debates there were a few swing voters interviewed that were thinking Kerry but decided to vote for Edwards. The local press seemed to be very kind and supportive of Edwards, didn't give Kerry much attention.

[tishaLA]

10. Not to be offensive, but

wasn't that the story Edwards was trying to spin when he said, after his SC victory, that he was in a "two man"race with Kerry--and then came in third and fourth in the caucuses this weekend--after finishing 4th in AZ, NM, and ND, and 3rd in DE?

Edwards said that he would do better after Clark left and then he didn't. Isn't it possible he can only get the AAK vote and he has more or less reached the ceiling of that?

[AP]

11. Although glad to see my "celing/floor" terminology catching on,

it looks like Edwards is going to have a big finish in WI today, and so I don't know how you can say he has found his ceiling.

[tishaLA]

13. I don't really think that's an original metaphor, AP

seems to me I have read it....oh....a couple thousand times before.

[DancingBear]

14. Ah, that's just his trial lawyer coming out

Say 50 different things - then when one of them comes to fruition trumpet it with a firm "told ya!" and move on. :)

Oh, and yes, BTW, to the AAK vote theory - that is exactly what it is. Can you imagine a debate between the two?

John: You voted for the war.
John: You did too.
John: Well, I didn't want to.
John: Well, I didn't either.

Makes me giddy just thinkin' 'bout it.

[andym]

12. Yup, the media would like a two-man "horserace"

Yup, the media would like a two-man "horserace". Sells better.
May the best man win!

[AP]

15. The media would like Bush to win. They want everyone to drop out.

They want to label Edwards a VP candidate.

Also, if you don't have money to spend on them, they don't like you.