Reply #45: I probably phrased that wrong

[Papagoose]

I didn't mean for it to sound like I was attacking you.

I think that the reason that people feel Edwards has no shot is due to circular logic. Everybody wants to back a winner - a voter wants to go with Edwards, but sees that most people are voting for someone else, so he goes with the crowd. Why bother holding elections?

In 2004, I lived in a neighborhood where (I thought) most people were voting for Bush. I was a little uncomfortable about it, but I put a John Kerry sign in my yard and waited for what I expected to be a negative reaction from my neighbors. Within a week, two more Kerry signs popped up. Within two weeks, three more appeared. A few days before the election, one of the Bush signs on my street was replaced by a Kerry sign by a voter who had a change of heart.

It takes people willing to make a stand on principle to stop the belief that the best candidate can't win. Obviously there are some candidates that are out of the realm of viability, but Edwards is in this. As long as enough of us hold firm.