At a personal level, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth have received much public sympathy since they announced last week that they would continue his bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination even though her breast cancer had recurred and spread.
This sympathy was evident in the backlash against CBS News anchorwoman Katie Couric when, in an interview with the couple on last Sunday’s “60 Minutes” show, she questioned Edwards’ priorities and asked whether his decision to continue his presidential bid demonstrated “a case of insatiable ambition.” The outcry reached such a crescendo that Edwards himself issued a statement Monday night defending Couric, calling her questions “tough but fair,” and in line with questions many Americans were asking.
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Among those respondents deemed likely Democratic Party caucus-goers in the pre-announcement group, John Edwards led the Democratic candidate field by 30 percent to 24 percent for New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and 22 percent for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Among the post-announcement group, Edwards had 36 percent support — an uptick of 6 percentage points — to 33 percent for Clinton, the front-runner in nationwide Democratic candidate preference polls, who had 9 points more support among the second group than the first. Obama ran third among those interviewed in the second half of the poll with 14 percent, an 8-point dropoff compared with the first-half respondents.
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http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/03/edwards_weathers_first_iowa_po.html I know there is a ton of time between now and the primaries, but this is promising.
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