In his post-Iowa caucus speech, John Edwards stays on message, bashing insurance companies, “corporate greed,” overpaid CEOs, oil companies and the Washington establishment. Oh yeah, his grandparents and his father worked in a mill.
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In this 30-second spot running in New Hampshire, John Edwards says he’s “never taken a dime from a Washington lobbyist.”
Sound Bite: “Corporate greed has infiltrated everything that is happening in this democracy.”
John Edwards speaks to every parent whose child is being tortured by standardized testing taking over the classroom thanks to the testing mania of no child left behind. (Can you tell I speak from personal experience?)
Sound bite: “I don’t believe a child learns anything filling out a bubble on a cheap, standardized test… A friend of mine from South Carolina says, ‘You don’t make a hog fatter by weighing.’”
John Edwards get more and more anti-corporate with every ad.
Sound bite: “Corporate greed won’t be stopped without a president who fights for you. Saving the middle class will be an epic battle and that’s a fight I was born for.”
John Edwards reminds South Carolina primary voters that he was born in South Carolina, that his daddy worked in the mills, that he was the first member of his family to go to college, that big corporations control Washington and that he will never forget where he came from.
This New Hampshire Edwards volunteer says she knocked on 620 doors in 11 days.
Sound Bite: “When I would get to a door and I’d be tired and the hill would be really high, I’d think, all right, if I knock on this door, this might be one less person that has to go without healthcare.”
Actor Kevin Bacon is supporting John Edwards and he scares Iowans at an Edwards rally by singing “Footloose.”
Sound Bite: “Cut loose . . . Footloose . . . kick off your Sunday shoes.”
Here’s visual proof that John Edwards is going downhill in Iowa.
In this 30-second spot, John Edwards says “corporate greed” is “stealing our children’s future.”
Sound Bite: “Saving the middle class is going to be an epic battle and that’s a fight I was born for.”
Academy Award winner Tim Robbins joins the Edwards “Main Street Express” bus tour in Iowa and speaks to a town hall meeting in Des Moines. Robbins says the media is bamboozling voters and that Edwards has “the best chance to beat Republicans in the general election.”
Sound Bite: “Eight months ago with eight viable Democratic candidates running, we were being sold a fiction that this was a two-candidate race. Why? No one had voted yet. We’re the voters. We decide who the frontrunner is.”
A Hillary precinct captain switches sides to caucus for Obama in Iowa because Hillary got nasty.
And a Republican volunteers for John Edwards because of health care:
In this 30-second spot, John Edwards says drug companies and insurance companies “run this country.”
With thousands of campaign volunteers from a dozen-plus candidates trolling for votes, living in New Hampshire means telephone hell. Here are a few “phonebank” war stories from John Edwards volunteers.
This nice woman converts a Republican:
Another nice woman converts an independent voter:
He used to work in a mill but now he’s calling New Hampshire residents:
Even though he lags Clinton and Obama in the national polls, John Edwards is very competitive in Iowa. Here he fires up the troops in Des Moines before setting out on — what else — another bus tour of the state.
Sound Bite: “This cause is about making certain that America rises, that America rises up again. That America rises up in a way that not just a few do well but that everybody in this country does well.”
Wallace Edwards says his son “will make us a great president.”
