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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Say it isn’t so
He’s been polling badly everywhere else, but in Iowa, Silky Phoney is actually ahead of Hillary and Barack:
John Edwards is betting that a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses will catapult him into national contention, and so far his strategy in the state is on track. A new TIME poll of likely Iowa caucus goers, taken a week after Edwards’ seven-day, 31-stop bus tour of the state, gives Edwards 29% of the vote, five points ahead of Hillary Clinton and seven ahead of Barack Obama. This latest TIME Poll of 519 likely Iowa Democratic caucus goers finds that, among the so-called “second-tier” candidates, Bill Richardson has 11%, with Joe Biden at 5%, Dennis Kucinich with 2%, and Chris Dodd at 1%. (The Poll was conducted August 22 – 25, 2007. The margin of error is approximately +/- 5 percentage points.)
With the field limited to the top four candidates, Edwards’s lead over Clinton widens, to 32% to 24%. Obama was at 22%, with Bill Richardson at 13%. Iowa polls can be unreliable, since only 5% to 10% of voters go to the caucuses; some other recent surveys have Edwards in a dead heat with Clinton and Obama. The race remains wide open, but Edwards’s position remains strong.
Is it possible? Could His Royal Phoniness actually pull off an upset in Iowa? I shudder to think about it …
Speaking of Iowa, Brian from Liberty Pundit has a piece up at Pajamas Media today in which he discusses attitudes of his fellow conservative Iowans post-Iowa Straw Poll, and speculates on what could be coming up around caucus time.
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This is great news. I’m pulling for Edwards all the way for the Democratic nomination.
Iowans keep re-electing Tom “I’m A Commie” Harkin to the US Senate. Why shouldn’t they fall for Edwards’ nonsense?
Benning,
I voted against Tom Harkin and for Bill Salier the last time Harkin was up for election. The problem was Salier was not the STATE GOP CENTRAL COMMITTEE’s guy. They were luke warm for him.
Mr Edwards’ achilles heel is campaign cash (or rather, the inability to raise it). He almost HAS to do well right out of the gate, or he’s done.
Edwards is pretty soft (pardon the obvious pun) here in Iowa, though…some polls are showing Hillary as being in the lead. In fact, the Real Clear Politics average is that Clinton is leading him by 2 percentage points at the moment.
Did this help Kerry?? Yeah I suppose so, if you consider the fact that he did end up the nominee. But honestly Edwards is so two faced there is no amount of MSM tush kissin’ that will help him get elected. I don’t see how the top 3 Dem candidates are electable. Although I beleve Hillary tops the list of unelectable, Edwards is right behind her. – Lorica