Edwards trying to collar case of Iowa blues

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/hunter/626122,CST-NWS-hunter30.article

Dem candidate pitches farmers, unions as he falls behind in polls

October 30, 2007

During the last week of October, I follow John Edwards for a few days around rural Iowa. One morning, I pull up to a high school in Corning where Edwards is due to speak, parking beside a car with a bumper sticker that says "Hogs For Edwards" above "Support the Family Farm."

Corning, in the southwestern part of the state, has a population of less than 2,000 and is best known as the birthplace of the late ''Tonight Show'' host Johnny Carson. In the last presidential election, President Bush had more support here than Democrat John Kerry.

Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and Kerry's vice presidential running mate, has come here for the fight of his political life. He is slipping in the Iowa polls; he does not draw the mega crowds that follow Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) or Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), and he is not pulling in the huge sums of money that are fueling their campaigns.

So, wearing blue jeans and an unpressed shirt, he is traveling around rural Iowa, making his pitch to farmers and small-town bankers and local machinists, because that is where he knows he may be able to pull out the caucus-goers.
'He hadn't forgotten us'

In Corning, he talks about Iraq, the economy, universal health care and corruption in Washington, and then he concludes by asking the crowd for its caucus support. "Look carefully at the candidates," he says. "Look inside their integrity, their character and honesty. Can you trust them?"

The next morning in Des Moines Edwards makes a speech about shoring up Americans' pensions, and he is introduced by an impassioned supporter named Doug Bishop who once worked at the now defunct Maytag plant in Newton.

FULL story at link.

[Catchawave]

1. He just got the NH SEIU endorsement, making that 12, so

I really don't understand these polls anymore :silly:

[Inspired]

3. Me neither

Who are they polling? No one I know has been polled and everyone I hang around with are very political....and most are Edwards supporters.

[durtee librul]

4. They are polling the 'other' democrats....

you know, the ones in the media who have the race all sewed up so far.

It will be interesting to see if he pulls this off and if he does, what will the media do then? Hell, for that matter, what will the repukes do when they can't count on Hillary to beat up anymore?

Never mind, I already know, they will pull out the swfitboaters who actually had jobs in the Mills in NC and can speak that him and his daddy were actually scabs and pro-management hacks and then they will produce a memo of his empolyment record showing he was absent all the time and down at the local bar swilling and that his momma was selling more than peanut butter pie receipes on the web.

hell, if these asshats can wear purple bandaids which still makes me boil, I don't put anything past them. They are so Un-american they make me want to puke.

I would just like to know how the hell we got so far in the dumper and how the hell we let this shit happen with monkey boy.

[progpen]

2. Great article.