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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (43)2/18/2004 7:47:18 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1381
 
Well, there your are Lizzie.
I just checked at Howard Dean(somber over there) to make sure you knew about this forum.
Edwards forum is working its way up the hot list.



To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (43)2/19/2004 4:34:36 AM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1381
 
Lizzie,

Re: The other candidates adopted the Dean message more or less and thats when Dean's support started to fall and the rest of the candidates became viable.

Agreed, and Kerry is doing it again by trying to lie about his unwavering support for "free trade" destruction of American labor.

Other important things that destroyed Dean are:

1) a vicious disinformation campaign in Iowa had many citizens convinced that Dean wanted to end Social Security and Medicare. One Dean volunteer (a friend of mine) who was phonebanking in Mason City found this nonsense to be widespread and hard to dispel. The public had been aroused and they weren't ready to listen to the truth. I don't know who issued the phony ads on Dean's positions. I'd love to find out who did this dirty trick. And expose them.

2) Dean's major enemy was the media. For obvious reasons. Dean threatened the media's greed:

mediareform.net

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One of the smart things about the Edwards campaign is that he takes few or no controversial stands that are likely to get him in trouble with the media.



To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (43)2/19/2004 10:09:42 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Respond to of 1381
 
He certainly transformed fund raising. And his early popularity probably figured in Kerry's and Edwards' votes not to fund the war effort. That will come back to bite them...