What Effect Will It Have That Edwards Is Not Even Trying For New England? [View All]

With the other two New Englanders, former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, out of the race, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts seems poised to win if not all, certainly nearly all of the 178 delegates at stake on Tuesday in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut.

Senator John Edwards of North Carolina has not campaigned in the region, concentrating his Super Tuesday efforts on California, New York, Ohio, Georgia and Minnesota.

"New England is the invisible area now," said Darrell West, a political scientist at Brown University in Providence, R.I. "It is going to be Kerry territory, and he doesn't have to make any effort. Edwards has just conceded it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/politics/campaign/01STAT.html

What does this say about Edwards? Shouldn't he be at least be a little bit competitive?



Am I just really tired or is this one of the funniest pictures of the race?