Edwards numbers keep dropping...in about 45 days or so, he will start polling in negative numbers

[Nimrod2005]

I really want the Dodds and Bidens...etc. need to drop out, we need to give the real candidates a shot at making their case.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Who are the real ones?

[Nimrod2005]

4. Anyone who can stand there and give it to Hillary in a one one debate

Edwards can do that...Wouldn't like to see that? I think he deserve a shot at taking her on, one on one or close to that, not with the rest who are not going anywhere, blah blah blah in every debate.

[gateley]

6. I actually think Hillary would tromp Edwards. nt

[Mnpaul]

10. Doesn't look like it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyj9KJWGWMA

Hillary just sits there with that deer in the headlights look

[venable]

13. care to respond to mnpaul's post?

you should take a look at it, and decide if your assessment of HRC v. Edwards is off the mark.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. Edwards is a clown. People would never stop laughing. He got whipped by Cheney, for christsakes.

[venable]

11. yeah, right, he's a clown. (please note sarcasm)

many thought at the time, and think now, that he outdebated probably the best debater in the country (Herr Cheney).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Who Appointed Cheney The Best Debater In The Country?

eom

[venable]

16. you probably don't realize it's not an appointed position

but it is a widely held belief that his arrogance and his dismissive manner of speaking and the obfuscating method of his rhetoric is very difficult to debate.

[GreenArrow]

8. Edwards is open to, how shall we say...

charges of hypocrisy and opportunism. Luckily for him, given his generally moribund poll numbers, his opponents have largely been ignoring him. On the off chance he would start to make a threatening move, I suspect they'll start slapping him down, hard.

[gateley]

2. Biden is MY "real candidate" so I really take exception to your post. Like you care. nt

[Cameron27]

3. And Biden is more "real" than the

self-styled transformed Edwards.

[MrRobotsHolyOrders]

5. This is deranged

If you're using poll numbers as a justification for "real," John Edwards is about 40 points shy of tying it up. I'd rather have the increasingly rational Chris Dodd, who's chances are just about the same as Edwards', in the race, thank you kindly.

[AtomicKitten]

9. I just saw a poll that sez he's doing better.

:shrug:

[sniffa]

14. obama shouLd drop out - he has not shot

it's sad reaLLy. the audacity of his backers that hope he can puLL it off is ridicuLous.

[DavidDvorkin]

15. Not so. See the graph in my link below.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3518385&mesg_id=3646861

Edwards is staying within a narrow range, as is Obama.

[youthere]

17. You're joking, right?

Biden is my candidate and he is VERY real, thank you very much. He is the most qualified candidate running, AND the most capable...even if he isn't the current media "darling".
Sorry, but most of us base our support of a candidate on more substance than poll numbers.