Despite coming in second in the Iowa caucus and third in the New Hampshire contest earlier this month, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards is working hard to convince voters that the Democratic nomination is not a two-person race.
“My message of standing up for the middle class against entrenched moneyed interests and fighting for the middle class is one that’ll work,” Edwards told reporters in South Carolina, according to MSNBC.
A recent poll by the Reno-Gazette Journal shows a extremely tight Democratic race in Nevada, with Edwards at 27 percent support, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois polling at 32 percent and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton at 30 percent. Nevada holds its caucus Saturday.
Despite a key endorsement by the culinary workers’ union for Obama, Edwards is confident about union votes.
“I think union support is relatively evenly divided here in Nevada,” Edwards said, according to the Houston Chronicle. “I’ve got carpenters and steelworkers and transit workers. They’ll work hard for me.”
Confidence in Nevada aside, the Edwards camp has already shifted focus to voters in the southern states, where he hopes his southern roots will strengthen his appeal. The former senator recently released four 10-second radio and TV ads aimed at the Jan. 26 primary in his native South Carolina, a state he won in 2004.
The ads, however, have come under criticism. One, entitled Beats, claims that Edwards is “the only Democratic candidate who beats all the Republicans in the recent CNN poll.”
“In fact, Edwards wasn’t even included in the most recent CNN poll that compared the Republican and Democratic candidates in head-to-head match-ups,” Newsweek reported. “However, there is an older CNN poll, released a month ago, that did include Edwards in the hypothetical match-ups. At that time, he indeed was the only candidate to lead all four Republican contenders.”
Another ad, called “”Deal”“:http://www.johnedwards.com/media/video/deal/, claims Edwards is the only Democrat who opposes NAFTA, a treaty candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has made a point of staunchly opposing for decades.
“Edwards has opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement, though neither he, nor Obama, nor Clinton were in Congress to vote on it before it took effect in 1994,” the Associated Press reported.
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"The nation's largest bank, Citigroup Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Washington Mutual and
others have the largest deficit in the 196-year history"! It is a depression!
"Specific economic stimulus package - plan" are based on a printing press economy!
The Country is in CRISES: WAR, DEBT, ECONOMY, HEALTH CARE,
RAMPANT CORRUPTION, ELECTIONS, UNEMPLOYMENT, DEPRESSION
� INFLATION, LAWS, SOCIAL SECURITIES etc.!
The truth is the "Government is dysfunctional! There is no accountability today...�!
The presidential candidates speak for change. They do not provide a SPECIFIC SUBSTANCE...!
The RIGHTS have been rationing one T-BONE at the time, such as, �FREE SLAVERY,
WOMEN RIGHTS to VOTE, the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT etc!
A CHANGE is, STOP granting UNLIMITED - ABSOLUTE power
to ANYBODY, now � today, rather than to relinquish �HOPES� to express
�THE WILL ON ALL MAJOR ISSUES�!
A CHANGE, �AMEND THE CONSTITUTION"!
The political system is an engine, like an engine in a car or truck, that propels
the economy, the war, the health care, the economy, the freedom, liberty, race, class etc.!
DEMAND people to �EXPRESS THEIR WILL on ALL MAJOR ISSUES�!
Replace the current �ENGINE� with an �UNIVERSAL ENGINE� - an engine that fits
on ALL cars trucks, an engine of substance - the engine �PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR
WILL on ALL MAJOR ISSUES� !
Except the individual responsibility! We have no one to blame but ourselves.!
It is the �UNIVERSAL ENGINE STUPID� which will run the �Economy stupid�, and
not the other way around! Printing press economy is, "confiscation"!
A personal message from your next President of the United States of America
As many of you know, I am proud to call South Carolina my birthplace. It was in South Carolina that my father had to borrow fifty dollars to bring my mother and me home from the hospital when I was born. It was also in South Carolina that I first saw men and women like my father work long, hard days at the mill. I am running for president because I believe everyone should have the same chances in life that South Carolina and America gave me. We need universal health care and good schools and none of our children should have to grow up in poverty.
Sincerely,
John Edwards