It's what's not in the story...

[dajoki]

If you want to read anything about John Edwards you have to go to page two, five paragraphs from the bottom and you will find this little nugget--For others, the Democratic field is more exciting.
Carol Walker Aten, who heads an Exeter nonprofit, says she still admires McCain's independence, which drew her to him in 2000. But she had narrowed her choice to Democrats Obama and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. "We really need a change," she said.

That's it, the story even mentions Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole before they get to Edwards. There has been a lot of discussion around here about this very thing, and this just backs it up. Why are they afraid of John Edwards?
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McCain losing votes to Obama in N.H.
Nonaligned voters in New Hampshire have their pick of parties. This time around, they lean toward a Democrat.
By Maeve Reston and Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
December 30, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-independents30dec30,0,3707939.story?page=1&track=ntothtml&coll=la-tot-topstories

NASHUA, N.H. -- Like many New Hampshire voters, Dave Montgomery considers himself a dyed-in-the-wool independent -- which in this state means he can vote in either the Republican or Democratic presidential primary when he goes to the polls Jan. 8.

This year, the semi-retired school bus driver from Milford finds himself torn between two candidates, one from each party: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama of (D-Ill.).

Montgomery likes McCain, he said, because "he seems to be enough of a rebel." He likes Obama for pretty much the same reason -- because he seems to be "his own man."

"I think either one of them could do the job," he said.

Independents like Montgomery may be the decisive factor for both major parties when New Hampshire holds the nation's first primary next week, hot on the heel's of Iowa's caucuses on Thursday. And the choices these nonaligned New Hampshire voters make almost assuredly will shape the nation's later primary races.

"This big group in the middle . . . has a chance to really transform the election," said Tom Rath, a veteran New Hampshire Republican strategist who is advising former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.). Describing the efforts to woo independents, he added: "It's more like a general election here."

[truedelphi]

1. I was watching TV, oh maybe back in mid-August

Visiting an elderly relative that day. They had CNN on almost all day.

And suddenly there was a piece on John Edwards. And I remember being shocked - because the main stream news never had any Edwards' coverage. Only coverage of Clinton and Obama for at least three weeks.

It was truly shocking to see a new face. Here Edwrds is running for President and for twenty one days in a row, I had not seen him on the news.

And since I am a Kucinich supporter who thinks maybe I'll end up voting for Edwards, I realized how much mainstream media wants to choose the candidates for us.

Gvien tatht the Pew rewsearch study recently came out to report:
28% of active American voters view themselves as Resmuglicans
33% as Democrats
and a huge 39% of us consider ourselves to be in the Independent category.

This is why they have to keep a lid on the alternatives to Obama and Clinton.

Because the possibility is all too real that we will wake up and realize we could actually vote for a non-corporate President.

[dajoki]

3. There you have it...

mainstream media wants to choose the candidates for us. I posted an article about this the other day, that shows how he doesn't fit into their corporate drama:

There are two rationales for MSM's strategy to weaken John Edwards:

One: John Edwards is the avowed enemy of greed-ridden corporations, and promises to end corporate dominance over the lives of Americans.

Two: Edwards doesn't cast well in corporate media's electoral theatre. He's unsuitable for their pre-penned Presidential drama, staged in three acts, and performed this past year, this next year, and for years to come in a politically contrived cable & network run.

The theatrical elements of MSM's NON Edwards Presidential "drama" are culturally compelling:

Act One features America's "first ever" minority on minority Presidential primary smack-down. The protagonists - "first ever" viable white female contender, Hillary Clinton, and "first ever" viable black male contender, Barack Obama, duke it out from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina and beyond - until the bruised and battered, albeit historic loser, eventually concedes.

<<snip>>

Act Two features the historic matchup of the new "first ever" nominee against the conventional white male nominee of the Republican Party. This plot line serves MSM's selfish corporate interests much more than the conventional white male versus white male plot a John Edwards candidacy would bring.

With the potential so high for extraordinary drama, mainstream media naturally can't allow John Edwards to win.

Despite how strongly Edwards polls against every Republican running, corporate media suppresses the reality of his success. When corporations control the message, they control the campaign. Thankfully Iowa and New Hampshire offer voters an interpersonal experience with the candidates as an alternative to media's concocted view.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3904923&mesg_id=3904923

[havocmom]

2. Why do they fear John Edwards? How many times has he beat big corporate lawyers in court?

That might be a clue.

For those who criticized him for once working as a corporate lawyer before he started taking them on, a question: How better to gain knowledge of how they work to screw regular people?

[dajoki]

4. Screwing regular people...

they have that perfected.