Edwards Making Closing Argument in Iowa--And Why The Media Doesn't Get It

Published: December 19, 2007, 8:00 am

John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa--and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now drawing increasingly larger crowds. That comes through glaringly in today's New York Times piece by the apparently perplexed Adam Nagourney. In the piece, we learn that: Mr. Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, almost won the Iowa caucuses in 2004 by introducing, in the final weeks of the contest, a closing argument that drew huge crowds and, polls suggest, rallied supporters to his corner right up until the night of the vote. Now, Mr. Edwards, a former trial lawyer, is offering yet another closing argument to his jury of voters here. And there is evidence from the size of his crowds to the decision by an opponent, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, to challenge him more directly in the past few days that it may be working. Nagourney appears surprised by this development. He even tries to make it seem as if Edwards'

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Comments