New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter?

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Topic subject Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter?
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2591269, Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter?
Posted by bigtree on Fri Jan-04-08 11:53 AM

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January 4, 2008, 9:50AM

With the candidates already stumping in New Hampshire, the thing to watch now is how Edwards and Hillary retool their approaches to adapt to the new political realities that have been created by Obama's seismic win last night.

Today in New Hampshire he employed a contrast with Obama that we haven't heard before: (http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/edwards_claims_to_be_seabiscui.html )

"I am not the candidate of glitz; I am not the candidate of glamor," Edwards said. "I am the candidate who will fight with every fiber of my being every step of the way."

Edwards' approach now is to cast yesterday's results as simply a Hillary loss and a victory for an abstract desire for change, rather than a victory for Obama, as well as casting the rest of the contest as a head-to-head battle between himself and Obama for that change mantle. Hillary has been airbrushed from the picture, in Edwards' telling.

And as the above references to "glitz" and "glamor" suggest, Edwards wants this contest with Obama to shape up as, "Who can best deliver change -- a lover or a fighter?"

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