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Americans back Edwardses' choice |
2007-03-27 |
Americans by 2-1 support the decision of former North Carolina senator John Edwards to stay in the Democratic presidential race even though his wife, Elizabeth, has been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer. However, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds that 38% of the public is inclined to believe that Edwards eventually will have to withdraw from the campaign because of her illness. Fifty percent believe he will stay in the race. The telephone survey of 1,007 adults was taken Friday through Sunday, just after John and Elizabeth Edwards held a news conference Thursday in Chapel Hill, N.C., to reveal her diagnosis and discuss their decision to stay in the presidential race. The questions about Elizabeth Edwards, asked of half the sample, have a margin of error of +/- 5 percentage points. The error margin for the full sample is +/- 3 percentage points. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 of course, it's his/their call, he's entitled to it. I'm also entitled to note that he was an ambulance-chasing parasite. A weak third til Dean self-destructed in '04. Couldn't hold his own Senate seat. Spent half his (only) Senate term in Iowa and NH running for President, and now, apparently chooses to run another losing campaign rather than spend quality time with the lady and the kids before she passes. Mark me down as "Not an Edwards Guy". Guess I live in the wrong one of the Two Americas™....the one that doesn't like hypocritical populist class-war crap from mansion-living lawyers of questionable character and judgement...but that's just me. YMMV |
Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-27 06:31 |
#1 Blogger Dean Barnett, who has cystic fibrosis:I’m familiar with the body-blow of a sudden diagnosis that turns your world upside down. It’s incredible – you walk into a doctor’s office and within a span of minutes you find out your life will never be the same. In the back of your mind you nourish the hopes of miracle cures or that you might be like that guy in Dubuque who got the same diagnosis but oddly enough lived forever, but the reality of the situation sits there in your mind. You can’t shake it – it just won’t leave. |
Posted by: Mike 2007-03-27 06:28 |