Edwards is moving up fast. The momentum is real. People I talk with on the ground in Iowa are real happy.

Edwards is the candidate with the monentum, best policy proposls, and most electability.

Edwards seems to have the best ground game, and doesn't have to spend nearly as much time re-introducing himself. And he's just *hammering* his pretty finely tuned message - one that sounds pretty sincere because it hasn't changed in substance in four years.

He's apologized for his Iraq vote, and the bankruptcy bill vote, but otherwise, his record is pretty good. And better than not apologizing.

He also has that handy 80 pg booklet that people can flip through to find out his position on over two dozen issues.

Those elements, his mid-20s floor, his significant lead in 2nd choice, and his knowledge of canvassing and the caucus system I think will put him over the top, barring some (credible) scandal.

An Edwards win in Iowa helps Hillary, the least electable candidate we can put forward in the general. So, although I like him, I don't see this as good news for democrats.

I'd like to see an Edwards/Obama ticket. Obama needs more experience and would make a great VP to represent us around the world. I'd rather see Hillary Clinton in the Supreme Court than in the Executive branch.

most electability.

I know you mean that positively, but it's a real downer for supporters of the wealthy, straight, white male candidate to rub other people's noses in it.

Donal
Hillary put into the Supreme COurt? It never occurred to me. Can you imagine Scalia & Thomas? Maybe they'd just quit!
dc

Well, I do a lot of prediction research and have found some interesting facts.
Just to set the record straight, I don't really like Hillary Clinton but after I finished my research, she has my vote.
I found enough information that points to extreme problems with this country in the next 8 years and large numbers of population decline from everything from murder to economic deaths to financial collapse caused by a failing government and the figures go down to 2 years if we elect another republican president in the next election.
All the information points to the fact that this country needs an enema! And after examining the views and goals of the presidential candidates, I found that the only one that can help get this country back no the right path is Hillary Clinton.
Don't get me wrong, she will cost this country a great deal, but with the other possibilities that loom in our near future, it would be a small price to pay for reviving a great country like the united states.

I think that Edwards will win comfortably in Iowa. Hillary has really fallen apart in the home stretch just like Howard Dean did in '04. I see it Edwards, Obama, Hillary...in that order.

The polls in Iowa don't mean much because it is based on caucuses. That means it isn't one person, one vote. My understanding of the way it works is that within your caucus everyone has to throw their support behind the same person. So you can end up with a huge margin of victory for a single candidate and another candidate fading badly, again just like Dean in '04.

Edwards is the man with solid experience and truly solid ideas. Hillary has ideas, but it seems like she wants to give some special entitlement to everybody (funding, Hillary?) and she tosses them around like she's handing out candy before a Student Council election. I don't think that resonates with Iowans and the country at large, and people don't like how she's crumbled under the pressure during the last month. Obama is the Democratic version of Fred Thompson...lots of initial excitement but a very bland campaign. Obama has to get an issue to run on. We can get "change" by voting for anyone in the party.

So I think that Edwards is the guy. His populist message has kept him from the peaks and valleys that other candidates have experienced. It'll be Edwards with 35% of the vote.

The farmers in Iowa will never vote for Goldy Locks
They can see he is a phoney with off shore hedge funds
A populist?
He don't walk the walk,

Obama has the most realistic chance of stopping Hillary. Edwards is hemmed in by lack of finances and the fact he has spent his entire effort in Iowa. These two are likely to cancel each other out giving Hillary a free shot. With either Obama or Edwards out of the race Hillary would be toast. The best chance to stop Hillary IMO is for Obama to take Iowa and carry that momentum into N.H. and S.C.

I could never vote for Edwards

That whole hedge fund investment sub prime loan thing just rubs me the wrong way.

Organizer, I LOVE your fantasy! Pretty much have had it myself. Still, though I think there's a good chance of Edwards and Obama in some combo of 1-2 in Iowa, Edwards would need to play too much catch-up in both financing and organization. From what I'm hearing, Obama not only has as much cash as Clinton, but his national organization outstrips hers.

As for Edwards/Obama, dream on... First of all, much as I love Edwards - and voted for him in 2004 - Obama's credentials are deeper. Remember, he only served one Senate term. Obama's been a legislator for more years; his organizer/constitutional-law-professor gigs aren't shabby either. Moreover, if either candidate were the nominee, they'd need their own Cheney, in a Glinda-the-Good-Witch way.

Oh, the dream of Gore/Obama... It's not going to happen but how it would change the world...

The country is ready for a woman as President. Just not this woman. The monumental change required to salvage this democracy requires new blood. The Clinton/Bush era is over. Republicans have shown they are interested more in obstruction rather than progress. The democrats have shown us nothing other than the the ability to cave in to the worst president in our history.With Hillary in office the republican party will spare nothing to accomplish her personal destruction they are so good at. She is the absolute worst candidate if our intent is to change. She represents the past. Bill Clinton did disgrace the office of the President among his many other failings as president. As a presidential team, they have had their chance. Eight years was enough. I cannot imagine two people who do not deserve to occupy the White House ever again. My support, time and energy is going to John Edwards. Of the candidates from both parties, of the flip floppers, liars, opportunists, religious fruitcakes, historical revisionists and outright fakes, John Edwards, with his own faults, represents the America we are all longing for and deserve. If this group of people are the best that this country can produce, John Edwards stands shoulders above the rest. He is easily the best hope to return this country to the people and away from the corporate, fascist and religious zealotry that is ruining this young democratic experiment called the United States of America.