Dec 19 2007
Strange but true
John Edwards is now the polling as the front-runner in Iowa. How is that possible, you ask? I blogged on such an eventuality a while back, but didn’t dream of Edwards stepping into the void. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could cancel each other out in an all out negative campaign and leave Jonathan “Hair-Cut” Edwards with the nomination. My friends and I discussed this, but I thought there was zero possibility of an Edwards nomination. Looks like I might have to reconsider.
A new InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll out of Iowa shows John Edwards leaping from third to first place in Iowa, and the GOP field ever-tightening, as the Jan. 3 caucuses approach.
The Democratic poll, taken from Dec. 16-17 of 977 Democrats who said they intend to participate in the caucuses, showed Edwards with 30 percent, followed by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton with 26 percent and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama with 24 percent.
Hey, stranger things have happened.
You might remember that this was how John F. Kerry got the Democratic nomination in 2006. He stood back and let Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean tear each other to shreds, and then, at the eleventh hour, Kerry strode in as the voice of reason. The moderate candidate in fact from the two extremes of the party. Whether or not Edwards can pull this off remains to be seen.
Keep in mind this is the same man curled the short hairs of his running-mate:
Edwards had told Kerry he was going to share a story with him that he’d never told anyone else—that after his son Wade had been killed, he climbed onto the slab at the funeral home, laid there and hugged his body, and promised that he’d do all he could to make life better for people, to live up to Wade’s ideals of service. Kerry was stunned, not moved, because, as he told me later, Edwards had recounted the same exact story to him, almost in the exact same words, a year or two before—and with the same preface, that he’d never shared the memory with anyone else. Kerry said he found it chilling, and he decided he couldn’t pick Edwards unless he met with him again.
Yikes!
Tom Petty’s last dance with Mary Jane comes to mind.
Seriously now. Do the Dems really want this man have his finger on ten thousand thermonuclear weapons?
Think about it, my friend.
— and shudder.
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Bookworm Room: Are we willing going to let little Iowa determine the entire Presidential election?