MSNBC: EDWARDS PICKING OFF VOTERS?

[chimpymustgo]

Posted: Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:27 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Edwards
From NBC/NJ’s Tricia Miller


MUSCATINE, Iowa -- One sign of momentum for Edwards five days before the Iowa caucus may be picking off caucus-goers from other campaigns. In a press release preceding the day’s first event, the campaign named 45 Iowans who supported either John Kerry, Howard Dean or Dick Gephardt in the 2004 caucus but plan to caucus for Edwards next week.

Meanwhile, at the event, a Kucinich supporter stood and said that he caucused for Edwards in 2004 after his first choice wasn’t viable. (In January 2004 Edwards and Kucinich each advised their supporters to move to the other’s camp if one of them was not viable.) The questioner said he was considering Edwards again.

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Edwards was introduced at the event by his state co-chair, Roxanne Conlin, a trial lawyer and the first female gubernatorial candidate in Iowa, and by state Rep. Nathan Reichert from Muscatine. Reichert likened the former North Carolina senator’s campaign to a Big Ten football game.

“These folks who are in this room know that John Edwards has run a steady, grinding -- what I would call a good-time, smash mouth Big Ten football campaign. It has been 3 yards and a pile of dust, three yards and a pile of dust, three yards and a pile of dust,” he said. “It’s been Muscatine and West Liberty and Wapello and all those little towns all across Iowa.”

Edwards has three more events today, ending the day with a rally in Des Moines. He was joined in Muscatine by his son Jack and daughter Emma Claire. His wife Elizabeth and older daughter Cate are also traveling Iowa on his behalf today.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/29/538117.aspx

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John and Elizabeth Edwards: their time is now!

[Dems Will Win]

1. The Pakistan problem will bring up Edwards' YES vote on Iraq and hurt him here in the home stretch

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Now really...

That is quite a stretch indeed.

[flyarm]

10. yeah right..eom

[Lex]

13. For real?

If you say so.

[indimuse]

29. WHAT about Senators who kept supporting IT!

SUCH AS THE "ONE" AND ONLY ....OBAMA!!!!!!:rofl:

[no name no slogan]

2. Wow, I didn't know he was a sharpshooter

I'm staying the hell out of Iowa until next Friday

[bobbolink]

3. Momentum behind the scene.

Methinks many people will be surprised.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[liberalla]

16. Momentum! Yes Yes YES!!!

Surprised is good! I soooo hope he comes out on top!
:toast:

[davidwparker]

4. make sure you watch the Edwards' on C-SPAN tomorrow. They are covering

the Dem candidates tomorrow.

[Pirate Smile]

5. Based on the headline, I thought they would be talking about 2008, not 2004.

[chimpymustgo]

6. It's all about NOW. These next 5 days in Iowa.

Hoping for a big win!

[flyarm]

11. i am flying out to Iowa tommorrow to work with Edwards camp!..

totally volunteering..i want him to win..period!

fly

[Lex]

14. Will you be able to update us here, flyarm?

That's way cool. :hi:

[bobbolink]

17. Thank you so much for your efforts!!! You'll be in my thoughts!

:thumbsup: :yourock:

[flyarm]

25. Thanks!! but I am doing it for all of us....eom

[Pierzin]

19. I am soooooooo jealous flyarm!!!!

I wish i could contribute somehow!

[asdjrocky]

20. Hey, so am I!

Where ya going?

[flyarm]

23. DesMoines...will be there tommorrow night!! start work monday morn!!

and i have just packed up every warm thing i own,...( don't own much warm as i live in Fla all winter and spring!)..but Hubby took me out to buy some UGGS..ugly but i am told warm!!

I will post stuff here if i have time..but my time will be devoted to John Edwards..its why i am going!!
I want to see this wonderful man win Iowa and move on to take NH..and the presidency!

I am going to Iowa to work my ass off for John Edwards!!

fly

[Madam Mossfern]

27. I'm with you in spirit

Wish I could go. I will do more - just wait, he will do well there and I can really really help when it comes to the primaries in the mid-atlantic states especially New Jersey.

I've given a bit of money, perhaps its time to give more.

[Yuugal]

7. K&R

"(In January 2004 Edwards and Kucinich each advised their supporters to move to the other’s camp if one of them was not viable.)"

As long as I'm hoping, I might well hope big: John Edwards, make Kooch your running mate when you win the nom. You know you love him. What real Dem doesn't?

[tritsofme]

12. Haha

I don't think Edwards is even stupid enough to pick Kucinich as a running mate.

[frogmarch]

9. Edwards is giving it his all

and I hope he's victorious.

K&R

[IndyOp]

15. Fineman in Iowa: Edwards crowds are good and "fired up"...

Fineman in Iowa: Lots of things look different on the ground with a week to go
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22411315 /

John Edwards has set the pace, and dictated much of the tone, of the Democratic race -– a tough, populist, anti-corporate message. Perhaps he can win on the strength of it. His crowds are good, too, and more of the “fired up” variety. He’s got a lot of union organizers straight out of the old-school, shouting slogans through megaphones made of rolled up posters.

But I (Howard Fineman*) remain skeptical, for one reason: these are for the most part good times in Iowa. If you listen to WHO radio, the legendary, 50,000-watt clear-channel station that covers the state, you know that corn and soybean prices are at an all time high. Farmers are flush, and so are a lot of other people. If Edwards wins in the face of that, it’s a huge signal about the future of economic fear.

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* Howard is known to many of us as the man who admitted not to long ago that he and the other media elites gave Gore a hard time during the fall of 2000 because Gore was leaving Bush too far behind in the polls and the media wanted an "exciting match".

:thumbsdown:

[balantz]

18. K & R

[quigleyunder]

21. picking off?

[cynthia]

22. yeah, I don't like the term

it has a negative connotation

[Mz Pip]

24. Yeah

like shooting flies with rubberbands. Bad image that one.

Zap! Got another one!

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Tejanocrat]

26. Interesting

[mod mom]

28. Just knowing that corporate media has ignored him makes me like him!

I don't mean to imply I didn't support before, but this to me is a positive thing.

[Triana]

30. FOR THOSE IN THIS THREAD WHO WANT TO DO MORE....email I received this morning...

Dear Triana,

I knew John could count on you to make the difference in this campaign!

Last Thursday, I challenged you to raise $1.5 million online by December 31 to give us additional resources as we push to victory in Iowa on January 3. I'd asked you to do so much already, but would you be prepared to accept this new challenge and help us raise $1.5 million in just five days?

Our online team told me this morning that thousands of you have enthusiastically responded to the challenge and now we're well over halfway to meeting that goal.

But now it gets really challenging. There's just two days left to hit the target -- and one of those is New Year's Eve, a tough day to raise money. I know we can do it because you've come through for us before -- but we'll need a big bump over the next 24 hours. Will you help us get it?

https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form">Click here to make a contribution and accept the challenge.

There are just 4 days until we win the Iowa caucuses and make political history. Because of your great response so far to our $1.5 million challenge, we were able to put additional resources into Iowa this weekend and expand our outreach efforts.

And, because of your support, we're strengthening our ground operations in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and other key early states.

I knew I could count on you -- but I still need your help to get us to our $1.5 million goal by the time the ball comes down in Times Square on New Year's Eve.

https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form">Click here to make a contribution and accept the challenge.

I also received a field update earlier today from our team on the ground in Iowa. They confirm what the latest polls are showing: John Edwards has the momentum heading toward caucus night on January 3.

This weekend, thousands of volunteers and supporters fanned out across the state, visiting with likely caucus goers on their stoops, front porches and in their living rooms, talking to them about John Edwards. Our television spots and newspaper advertisements are up and running.

There is no doubt we have the best ground operation of any campaign in Iowa. We're going to make political history this coming Thursday night. Even though the media and the Washington pundits have spent most of their time focused on the two celebrity candidates, John's the one who's going to win Iowa -- and then continue the momentum moving into New Hampshire.

That's why your contribution today -- whether it's $100, $50 or even $10 -- makes the difference. It's a challenge -- but I know I can count on you to come through for John Edwards.

https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/form">Click here to make a contribution and accept the challenge.

Thanks for all you do.

--Joe Trippi
Senior Advisor, John Edwards for President
December 30, 2007

[chimpymustgo]

32. I just donated. We need to put the petal to the metal NOW. Thanks for the

reminder. I started a thread suggesting EVERYONE put their money where their mouths are.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3909304

[Kurovski]

31. K&R. (nt)