SF Chron: Edwards still has a role in nominating process

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Edwards still has a role in nominating process

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, January 21, 2008

On a sunny weekend day in front of San Francisco's Ferry Building, volunteers at the Barack Obama for president table were selling an inch-thick booklet explaining Obama's policy positions for $5. A few feet away, volunteers supporting John Edwards were handing out campaign flyers - that they made and paid for themselves.

One flyer read: "It's not over until everyone votes. Don't let the pundits take away your voice for 2008."

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His health care plan offers universal coverage where Obama's doesn't. Clinton's plan is similar to Edwards', and was released seven months after his.

This month, Edwards called for a quicker and more complete pullout of U.S. troops and training forces from Iraq than either Clinton or Obama. In 2002, then-Sen. Edwards voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, as did Clinton. Obama publicly opposed it.

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Edwards has talked most aggressively about removing the power of corporate influence from politics, but voters have been telling exit pollsters that Obama is the candidate most likely to bring the amorphous concept of "change" to Washington.

Even Edwards' supporters admit that his problems have less to do with policy differences than with Edwards getting overlooked in the media's focus on the historic candidacies of Clinton and Obama, the best-funded woman and African American to run for president. Even after Edwards finished second in the Iowa caucus this month, he received only a fraction of the media coverage that Obama and Clinton did in the following days, and slightly more than former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican who barely competed there, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's campaign coverage index.

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[redqueen]

1. Oh how quaint... "he still has a role"... puke-o-rama!

"Even after Edwards finished second in the Iowa caucus this month, he received only a fraction of the media coverage that Obama and Clinton did in the following days, and slightly more than former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Republican who barely competed there, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's campaign coverage index."

:nuke:

[liberal N proud]

2. With 47 states to still hold primaries?

I would think that more than a role could be said.
The voters could do another slam on the corporate media and chose Edwards over the choices they media would have them to believe.

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3. "It's not over until everyone votes. Don't let the pundits take away your voice for 2008."

[mother earth]

4. Words to live by...

"It's not over until everyone votes. Don't let the pundits take away your voice for 2008."

[saracat]

5. Obvious Obama supporters don't give a darn about the "poor".They are "charging"

$5 for booklets to eplain their candidares position? Where does that money go? It isn't as though the overbloated Obama Campaign "needs" the money.Meanwhile Edwrds supporters print their own and give them away? Therin lies the difference!If you can't afford $5 you don't deserve to know Obamas position.Thats what it sounds like to me!

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6. Maybe that's why I don't know Obama's positions. I won't pony up the five bucks.

Maybe that's the problem so many people are having.