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Edwards Up On The Air In New Hampshire

John Edwards hits the airwaves today in New Hampshire with this ad, a new version of the spot that ran in Iowa last week:

The spot features Edwards demanding that the Dems show "backbone" and shows him again claiming that the candidacy is partly driven by Elizabeth Edwards' illness. It reflects a sense within Camp Edwards that voters are really starting to tune into the race now and hence that a reminder of what his campaign is all about is called for.

The ad also comes amid a sense in the Edwards camp that the momentum is shifting a bit in their favor in the wake of the anti-Hillary YouTube going viral and with a front-page story in today's Times saying that the Edwards campaign is showing a "fresh ferocity."


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Barack Obama had better watch his back. If the anybody-but-Clinton vote should start migrating Edwards' way, it could be all over but the shouting for the Senator from Illinois.

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Good ad, this type their are far more ethnic faces as opposed to the very homogenous ad ran in IA.

Obama's appeal and Edwards overlap, no doubt about it.

which is why Hillary needs to watch her back, they are both gaining on her.

Looks like she has BigDaddy Bill out now whinning for her, about the immigrant issue with driver's license.

No matter how complicated the issue is, Hillary waffled and did double talk, after she gave a long meandering answer which all of her rivals couldn't understand. Dodd said she was for it and Hillary denied that, Edwards said she gave 2 different answers in less than a minute and Obama said he was confused as to whether she was for it or against it after she rebutted Dodd.

Sorry Bill, Hillary's problem is DOUBLETALK....not swiftboating.

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Corporate media wants to ignore Edwards . . . But they want a ratings boosting dog fight more.

I don't care why the ACTUAL Democratic Party's platform is getting air time . . . Just that is after thirty plus years.

Go Edwards!

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Meanwhile, Edwards is getting some heat from the Left about his own answer to a question about illegal immigrants and driving licenses yesterday on ABC -- it sounded a lot like Clinton's.

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No one can sound a lot like Clinton!

There is not that much doubletalk to go around.

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CalD~

I really don't think Obama is in second right now thanks to the "anybody but Clinton" vote. Most everyone I know that supports Obama supports him because he is, by quite a significant margin, the most impressive candidate. The polls have supported this notion as well. We believe in him because his approach is unique and powerful. I would certainly support Hillary in a general election if it came to that, but my thoughts and prayers will, for the next few months at least, be with Obama.

I certainly don't know anyone that is supporting Obama because they don't want Hillary. Again, we support him because we want him in the White House.

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First of all, Great ad!
Second, I like Obama, he's my second choice, but what exactly makes him "the most impressive candidate" vs Edwards. Genuinely, I'm not being combative I'd just like to hear an Obama supporter back that up a bit more.
The reality is that Edwards must know that he could catch some blow back for targeting Clinton a little more aggressively. He was there in 04, he knows he make take the front-runner down and himself along with her, paving the way for Obama. That actually makes me like the guy even more. He truly doesn't want to see the establishment candidate win, even if it costs him. I, for one, hope he's able to ride Clinton's double talk all the way to the top in Iowa.

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Superb ad. It reminded why I am a Democrat despite being incredibly fortunate in what life has given me.
This makes me look at the frontrunner with even more critical yes.

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Superb ad. It reminded why I am a Democrat despite being incredibly fortunate in what life has given me.
This makes me look at the frontrunner with even more critical yes.

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Sorry for pushing the button twice and for saying "yes" instead of "eyes." I definitely haven't said "yes" to anyone yet!

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Obama's the only candidate that, as far as I can tell, has an authentic desire to diminish Executive power. He has the most balanced approach of any candidate, seemingly knowing best how to work within the realities of present-day government for honest social change and pragmatic economic choices.

He also just feels the most honest, the most open. I think he summed it up best at a speech recently in saying that Hillary's running a perfect textbook campaign, contrasting it with his own lack of a desire to run a "textbook" campaign, but rather attempting to get in through honest opinion, without catering to anyone or anything but his own desire to improve the lives of all Americans.

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Re: Obama, I strongly recommend the NYTimes Magazine feature on his foreign policy vs. Clinton's published last Sunday. I think it captures why so many of us are so enthusiastic about a President Obama. A quick excerpt:


"A post-post-9/11 strategy must harness the forces of globalization while honestly addressing the growing “perception of unfairness” around the world; must actively promote, not just democracy, but “a world of liberty under law”; and must renew multilateral instruments like the United Nations.

In mainstream foreign-policy circles, Barack Obama is seen as the true bearer of this vision. “There are maybe 200 people on the Democratic side who think about foreign policy for a living,” as one such figure, himself unaffiliated with a campaign, estimates. “The vast majority have thrown in their lot with Obama.” Hillary Clinton’s inner circle consists of the senior-most figures from her husband’s second term in office — the former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, the former national security adviser Sandy Berger and the former United Nations ambassador Richard Holbrooke. But drill down into one of Washington’s foreign-policy hives, whether the Carnegie Endowment or the Brookings Institution or Georgetown University, and you’re bound to hit Obama supporters. Most of them served in the Clinton administration, too, and thus might be expected to support Hillary Clinton. But many of these younger and generally more liberal figures have decamped to Obama. And they are ardent. As Ivo Daalder, a former National Security Council official under President Clinton who now heads up a team advising Obama on nonproliferation issues, puts it, “There’s a feeling that this is a guy who’s going to help us transform the way America deals with the world.” "

You can't say that either Clinton or Edwards will, simply by virtue of their election, indicate to the rest of the world that we there has been a fundamental change in the way America looks at, and will engage with, the rest of the world.

But, since it looks like very few people are now buying what Obama is selling, give Hillary hell Johnny. If either he or Obama benefits, all to the better.

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Seth, I believe in Obama's intentions, I don't believe he's the only candidate that's authentic in those intentions however. I just keep waiting for him to really go for it, instead from his announcement speech til now I've been kept waiting. He's my Senator, I want to be inspired by him like I was when I saw him at the 04 DNC. He's just been too cautious and passive for my official liking. That leads me to fear how much he really is being himself. Edwards is my guy until he gets the nod or drops out I think. I'm really not trying to start a back and forth, and I make all my statements in as civil a way as I can. "The most impressive candidate" line just got my attention and wanted someone to help me see what I was missing.

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