The Duke
JohnD.Ford
Junior Chimp
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« on: April 13, 2004, 02:14:54 AM » |
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I think you overrate Edwards as a cnadidate. He would not win re-election to the Senate this year if he were running. He'd not win any of those southern states. I'll believe that Harold Ford can carry Tennessee when he wins a Senate race there, until then he's just another nobody hitting .320 in AA ball.
Edwards also stunk up the Dem primaries in Ohio and Michigan, calling into question whther he could win those states in a general. His overly southern accent didn't wear well in the rustbelt.
His only strenght is in farm states. He'd hold his own in Iowa and Wisconsin, but I can't see him doing well in the southwest or the moderate New England states (Maine, New Hampshire). He is a southern populist in the tradition of Al Gore Sr. in a south that doesn't want populists anymore.
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