Obama, Clinton turn battle to New Hampshire (MSM ignores Edwards)

Source: Reuters

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Jan 4 (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama, fresh from a dramatic victory in Iowa, took his presidential campaign to New Hampshire on Friday, where he hopes to deal a potential knock-out blow to one-time front-runner Hillary Clinton next week.

Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady who was forced into a disappointing third in Thursday's Iowa caucuses behind Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, suddenly finds herself in a possible must-win situation in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

Obama, an Illinois senator seeking to become the first black U.S. president, quickly tried to take advantage of his Iowa victory.

"New Hampshire, if you give me the same chance as Iowa gave me last night, I truly believe that I will be president of the United States of America," Obama told about 1,000 cheering supporters in Portsmouth.

For Republicans, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's come-from-behind win over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Iowa on Thursday forced Romney into a scramble to hold on to New Hampshire where he faces a strong challenge from Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0427694320080104?sp=true

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Edwards came in ahead of Clinton - why does this headline not state the race is not between "obama and Clinton"?

:argh:

it would be a good idea to write any MSM we could, and I mean lots and lots of us and let them know how we feel. But not much response so I don't know. I wrote them myself, but I'm only ONE person.

There IS and ALWAYS has been the assumption, and spoken by well known journalists that the D. C. Elites hate John Edwards, and big corporations are also not thrilled with him.... SOOOOOOOOOOOOO you can SEE how POWER works.

What I DON'T understand is how MSM is giving Obama all this praise about him NOT being part of Washington, etc. He's taken a great deal of money from insurance, medical and pharma companies, but yet PEOPLE don't think he has!

There was a post here that showed just WHO took how much... Obama was up there a lot of the time!

than it was to Clinton and the fact is they tied. You can talk about that .3% that separated them, but the truth is it was do or die for Edwards and he didn't do. Clinton has huge support almost everywhere else in the country. Edwards doesn't have spit.

DU is not a particularly great indicator of the Democratic Party much less the country.

Republicans, Independents and Democrats, is that Edwards seems to be a consensus candidate. My reformed republican brother likes him alot. I think he can unify and draw people from outside the party to vote for him. Hillary, not so much. Obama, maybe.

I like John Edwards more and more, having drifted over from supporting Obama.

The mainstream media and big corporations seem to be genuinely afraid of Edwards as evidenced by the complete lack of coverage and attention he is getting for beating one of their choices.

The media made a big deal that Romney spent over 6 million in Iowa. But Obama bought his election for 10 Million! Does anybody think he's "changing course"?

Edwards "shot his wad" in IA, and he doesn't have a chance in NH, and will quit the race soon.

"conventional wisdom" are off the mark.

http://www.johnedwards.com/

seems he's gearing up for bigger and better things.

He's got no organization or money or standing in the polls in other states.

His strategy was to make his win in Iowa provide these things in other states. He lost his lead in the polls in August, and he's been struggling with that losing strategy ever since.

I think he will stay in until Feb 5. But he'll be "also ran" in most of the primaries until then.

I do so apologize for my poor choice of word that you jumped to attack.

Please go to the website address that I gave you (as I am way too exhausted to copy all those links that you won't click on anyway - since one click was too hard to do).

You will see there the organization, the momentum the planning that has gone into the entire campaign that will span the nation.

Sorry that you appear to be lazy.

sincerely,

UpInArms

His skeleton crew in other states, and "no" spending strategy beyond Iowa has been well known for months. What his campaign says after his linchpin Iowa strategy failed is sad, since they've been acting in the opposite way since June.

Edwards' website is trying to salvage some measure of morale-boosting momentum from his devastating loss in Iowa. It's what any candidate who hasn't (yet) quit the campaign would do.

Clinton did not base his strategy of spending every dime he had on Iowa, in order to obtain momentum, volunteers and money for other primaries after his "win" there. That's what Edwards did.

His loss is far more devastating than Hillary Clinton's loss (or Bill Clinton's loss in '92) because they didn't put all their eggs in the Iowa basket.

blogs.reuters.com/trail08/

Source: reuters

Obama and Clinton turn battle to New Hampshire

By Mark Egan and Claudia Parsons 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama, fresh from a dramatic victory in Iowa, took his presidential campaign to New Hampshire on Friday, where he hopes to deal a potential knock-out blow to one-time front-runner Hillary Clinton next week.

Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady who was forced into a disappointing third in Thursday's Iowa caucuses behind Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, suddenly finds herself in a possible must-win situation in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.

Obama, an Illinois senator seeking to become the first black U.S. president, quickly tried to take advantage of his Iowa victory.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080105/pl_nm/usa_politics_dc;_ylt=AngK9U2KtRvxS3nyz7oasQ6s0NUE

they had exclusive segments on obama, hillary, huckabee and mccain.

edwards name was mentioned once.

geez, he only came in second, and BEAT hillary. but they are going to marginalize him because he wants to take on the corporations.

Richardson either.

and Iowa picked the one they thought would be the best one. If New Hampshire says the same thing, it is over, we are next going to states where African-Americans are a significant part of the Democratic voting majority.

Hillary will NEVER get votes from people who vote Repuke occasionally, Edwards probably won't, but Obama might. Unfortunately, for a party to win the White House, they have got to win the middle of the country, as well as their base. If the Rethugs nominate the Huckster, he will not even get their base, at least not the non-fundie part of it.

Clinton is in first place in the polls in New Hampshire. Obama is close on her heels, coming off his win in Iowa. John Edwards is a distant third in NH, and his (big) 8 point loss to Obama and virtual tie with Clinton (1/4 of one percentage points separated them) in Iowa means he gets no bounce there. He can at best come in third. And that means he's done.

I truly hate to say this. I haven't wanted to burst the bubble. But it's the hard facts. John Edwards is over, and the media knows this.

And even at this he still gets prime air time on Olberman and elsewhere. But the Edwardites whine and moan that he gets no face time. He gets no press. Well, it ain't true. He gets more press than a candidate in his position should. But this is New Hampshire: he has no chance to win there, from all indications. When you don't have a chance to win, you don't get a lot of press. The stories right now are the person who won in Iowa and the person who is ahead in New Hampshire. That's show biz. Deal with it.

All the other candidates will be gone. There are much bigger states with many more electoral votes coming up. No doubt Edwards is now trailing but by no means is he out.

He is super-duper behind in South Carolina ... his native state. Where the hell else could he win? California? New York? No chance.

Hillary Clinton has a chance in those large states on Super Tuesday (though if she loses NH and SC, not so much).

Edwards has no organization, little money. The chances of a turnaround for him are slim to none at this point.

Or anywhere else for that matter. His good showing in Iowa will not make a difference. The groundwork for these coming primaries was laid months and months ago.

The MSM is ignoring Edwards.

and that's the best place to be, IMO. Cover from both the cat fight in our own party, and the dogs of war in the GOP.