Younger Crowd Losing Appetite for Edwards

[illinoisprogressive]

Tasara Ocheskey is an Iowa Democrat of the active variety -- so enthusiastic about the upcoming caucuses that she interrupted a reunion brunch with high school friends at the Waveland Cafe last Saturday to talk about the race.

But Ocheskey, 28, is no longer enthralled with the candidate she supported last time: former senator John Edwards of North Carolina.


Instead, she's thrown him over for Sen. Barack Obama. "I decided right at the beginning of the campaign to support Barack Obama," said Ocheskey, a teacher in Des Moines.

Under a thin layer of smoke that hung at the diner ceiling as dishes clanked and her friends fell quiet to listen to the political conversation, Ocheskey poured out the reasons for her conversion, all of them pertaining to what she described as Obama's strengths and fresh appeal rather than Edwards's weaknesses.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082102031.html

[draft_mario_cuomo]

1. What journalistic research: interview a couple of people and claim they speak for an entire group

Even the Johnson County Fair straw poll carried more weight than this!

[More Than A Feeling]

2. What kind of reporting is this supposed to be?

A few anecdotes does not a substantive article make.

But if we're telling anecdotes, I'm a young voter in Iowa, and my appetite for Edwards is strong, and one of my buddies (a Republican from California, registered in Iowa), says that Edwards is the only Democrat he'd vote for in the general.

[draft_mario_cuomo]

3. Same here. Edwards has the most support by far among the young Dems I know nt

[wtmusic]

5. Whatever it's supposed to be, it's a pretty obvious hit piece

Anyone can make up this crap.

[bob4460]

4. Because Edwards is the one that scares them he can win

[flyarm]

6. its amazing the level of horse dung these so called journalists

are willing to wallow in!!

This is not reporting..this is bullshit!

fly

[Kiouni]

7. While I think this is a hit piece

I agree with it and I have moved from the Edwards camp over to Gobama nation myself.

On edit: I'm 23 thats why this is relevant.

[Sapphire Blue]

8. HAH! One member of this "Younger Crowd" is trying to decide between Obama & Giuliani:

Now, Daniel said she is considering Obama, or maybe even former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the current Republican front-runner in national polls. "But if Hillary gets up there, I won't vote for her," she said emphatically. "I don't like her 'stand-by-your-man kind of girl who rides on her husband's coattails just to become president' thing. Maybe if she would have gotten a divorce and done everything for herself I would have thought about it."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082102031.html

I'd be willing to bet that no one who would consider voting for Edwards would ever consider Giuliani as an option! Some :puke: "Younger Crowd" this is.