Much more compelling than reporting about the progressive populist message of Edwards, whom they dislike only slightly less than they dislike Hillary.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

In sum: the entire nation is from Kansas not just people both in Kansas. Everyone is voting against his/her best interests. Of course, Brooks didn't say that.

In recent polls (no links, sorry), roughly 80% of Americans polled have favorable attitudes toward corporations, and that appears to hold in spite of CEO theft scandals, superprofits, and the loss of jobs to China.

Sweden has a 89% unionization rate among government and private industry workers. America's unionization rate seems to be going down from, what, 12%? WTF. Explain this!

I think that part of the problem is just that the unions have been derelect in educating the American public. I say that as a former union steward, an unpaid chief steward. Perhaps too much union money is going into union salaries and not enough into advertisements or education about union benefits.

Alternatively, the working American public is just electively stupid.

Edwards puts the hard reality out there.  He says we need to change it.  He says he will change it.  But for people in a lower economic bracket -they know the hard reality and they know change is needed and they've had a whole lot of people say they are going to change it but nothing changes.  Apparently they don't buy the argument that being a fighter is enought to make change.  And maybe that's because of their own experience.  Maybe they think you need something else that they don't have.

All of this is interesting but means little to me. The demographics you're digging down into are not informed voters. In fact, I am surprised that there are any people in NH who actually make less than 15K/yr and even speak English.

Nothing personal. Really. I just think you're reading too deeply into these polls. Maybe I'm wrong. Who knows?

I find it curious how everyone here who'd complained about the machines stealing the election in 2004 can blithely read the tea leaves at the bottom of the New Hampshire cup and presume they can go down to the track and make a reasonable bet. So it goes.

It's old news that the media will attack and marginalize true progressives. My girlfriend took a test on the internet to find out which candidate best matched her beliefs, and she came up with Kucinich. But she and the rest of America have to get past the tongue stud and the flying saucers before they get to the issues.

When you talk about what resonates in the MSM echo chamber you are pretty much being an echo. So it goes.

BECAUSE THEY READ HIM AS FALSE!!!

Because he acted as a trial lawyer for so long that he can't say a "true" word in a true manner even if he himself believes it.

Sorry, Charlie.

StarKist don't take professional liars.

Not unless they are better at it than John-Boy.

It's one thing to sway 12 jurors.

Jurors that were at least partially vetted by the lawyer in question.

Jurors that mostly just want to get the fuck OUT of there and whose asses are not particularly in a sling if they vote wrong.

Jurors who are listening to TWO liars acting as well-paid mouthpieces for their clients. Two liars who are a LONG way below the class of liar that one must be to succeed in national politics.

Edwards is out of his depth.

He resembles an actor who had a little success in regional productions but is now trying to act with the BIG boys and girls.

Fit only for a walk-on male ingenue role but too stupid to realize it.

Sorry, folks.

He is an accident.

Chosen by an equally untalented actor to be his co-star in a production that closed during previews. Beaten by a Disney-like production of "The Lyin' King".

Fuggedaboudit.

He's outta here.

AG


Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

Multiple indications of vote fraud are beginning to pop up regarding the New Hampshire primary elections.  Roughly 80% of New Hampshire precincts use Diebold machines, while the remaining 20% are hand counted.  A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts.  In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%.  In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election.

Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct.  The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton.  The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton.  Black Box Voting reports that after being asked about the discrepancy Sutton officials decided that Ron Paul actually received 31 votes in Sutton, but they were left off of the tally sheet due to 'human error.'

He's been running for president pretty much for 4 years now and nothing has caught on.  Why?  Many people I speak to think that all of Edwards doings the last 4 years have been just to make him electable.  Many of them, like me, have a bad feeling about how much Mrs. Edwards is directing the campaign.  I can go into a whole post on Mama Edwards and her little boy Johnny.  

A snapshot

My new neighborhood is decidedly lower on the economic scale, and is mostly Latino and Asian.  While the circles I move in everyone either has a college degree or attended college, the census data doesn't bear that out.  The owner/workers are all sitting on our neighborhood council. They were involved in politics at their high school and colleges.  The people (workers and customers) at my local coffee shop are Obama supporters (this was interesting as I heard they held something of a mini-caucus with customers to determine which candidate was going to get the support).  Everyone gives Edwards an eyeroll because his campaign message seems to be "I'm the White Knight that will save your minorities".  And again, the appreciation for Mrs. Edwards among this group is even lower.  No one thinks that Edwards will even try to live up to his rhetoric.  I also find that there's some regional bigotry involved in some of their thinking.

Meanwhile, I'm still Black and I still have family that is firmly Democratic, though even that could possibly erode (there's this weird pro-Huckabee strain that can come out if Clinton is the nominee).  See, all of them look at Edwards as opportunistic and yeah, they've mentioned the White Knight thing too.  

So maybe you are right...that there is a reaction that we finally have two candidates who are not White males and it's pretty good.

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