Edwards visits all 99 IA counties

Posted: Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:39 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/National Journal's Tricia Miller
DES MOINES, IOWA -- With a community meeting in tiny Coulter in Franklin County yesterday morning, Edwards has now visited all 99 Iowa counties. The campaign celebrated the milestone last night with about 850 supporters at Drake University in Des Moines.

In Coulter, Edwards staffers gave reporters a memo with data and graphs from pollster Harrison Hickman and Iowa director Jen O'Malley Dillon showing the senator's support in Iowa. They observed that while Edwards has visited all 99 counties in 53 days in Iowa, Obama has appeared in 59 counties in 52 days and Clinton 39 counties in 38 days. "With Iowa's proportionally representative system, a campaign that can turn out five additional caucusgoers in 100 rural precincts will almost certainly make greater gains than a rival campaign that can turn out an additional 500 caucusgoers in one precinct," the report said.

The memo continued play up Edwards' chances in the general election. It showed that he would defeat the Republican front-runners in "big blue states" -- specifically California, Massachusetts, and New York -- with smaller margins than his Democratic opponents. But it also found that he was more likely to win in battleground states (Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Virginia were listed) compared with his Dem rivals.

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Iowa will probably come down to Obama and Edwards in the end, crippling the Clinton campaign in the face of her enormously high national expectations; every single claim of frontrunner and inevitable that has been tossed around will be thrown back in her face by the national media. Edwards just has an approach that appeals in Iowa, and Obama, as a midwesterner with a positive message, is very well positioned also. Clinton's ceiling in Iowa appears to be 30%, and if none of the second tier candidates pick up a significant chunk of the vote, that puts her in a position to come in third even if she can retain all those voters.

Shadow, Hamden, CT (Sent Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:29 PM)

EDWARDS VISITS ALL 99 IA COUNTIES

Trouble was, he was in Nebraska. Does Edwards ever get anything right?

David Martin, Miami Fld (Sent Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:16 PM)

Finally an article which demonstrates the true dominance that Edwards is showing in the polls. The only reason he has been losing in the general polls is because no one is paying any attention yet, and hardly any positive news or even substantive news discussing his policies has been presented. There has been a huge bias on every channel, putting down the Edwards campaign, focusing on his haircuts, focusing on his wealth. So far the media has shown their ability to dumb us all down to where everything is a dumb story intend to speak right to the gut. 'Oh he makes money and wants to help the poor' he's a hypocrite. Please there are no more messiahs and in order to help the poor these days you need to have the resources to do so. 'But he gets expensive haircuts.' Let's pretend for a second that this matters the least bit, why don't we know how much Senator Clinton or Governor Romney pay for their haircuts, I guarantee you it is over $100 more likely $200. 'But it's a testament to his character.' No it's not. It’s a stupid talking point put forth by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh to try and diminish his candidacy in they eyes of the common man. Why? The vast right-wing conspiracy now is Hillary, sorry Hill, it's the truth.

Corporate interests and the right-wing want Hillary because she turns out the Anti-Bill, semi-retarded values voters (as if bjs were at all important to American life and our status as a super power). It's not her fault, but it's true. For that reason Hillary Clinton is the GOPs only chance for a close race.

Edwards wipes all the GOP off the map in the head to heads. For that matter so does Obama. Right now Edwards and Obama are blocking each other in polling. All I have seen are pathetic subjective analyses of where their voters go as a second choice. I'll tell you this that virtually all Edwards voters would go Obama before Hillary, and to a lesser extent the opposite is true as well. That's why the Iowa caucus will once again knock off the presumptive nominee. The second and third place will band together and knock off ol Hillary or at least I hope Edwards and Obama are smart enough to do so. If they were we'd have Presidential dominance for 16 years Edwards first and then the inevitable victory of Vice President Obama in 2016. Please Hillary go away for the sake of the nation. We need a sure thing now. We need a new course.

Desperate, Overland Park Kansas (Sent Monday, October 29, 2007 10:43 AM)

Edwards wouldn't have won re-election to his senate seat. How the hell will he win anything else?

Bruce, NV (Sent Monday, October 29, 2007 1:03 PM)

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