Edwards running an unsuccessful campaign is not due to the media [View All]

[NJSecularist]

I'm tired of all the Edwards supporters blaming the media for Edwards' campaign failures. Edwards, for all intents and purposes, should have been the co-frontrunner for the Democratic nomination this election along with Hillary due to the fact that he was well-known after being on Kerry's ticket and being a candidate last election. He has a message that, in theory, all Democrats should embrace.

But they haven't.

His failures have been due to his one-state strategy backfiring. A state where he spent 3 years in. A state a southern boy like John should have won running away against a women senator from New York and a black senator from Obama. Instead, he finished second and his campaign was exposed as being barebones after Iowa.

Edwards was effectively eliminated from the race when he couldn't win the state he lived in for 3 years and didn't have any significant ground game - or hell, much support at all - in any other state.

Look at Huckabee. A guy with no virtually no startup money is now a major power broker in the Republican race. He started off with flat-liners like Tancredo and Hunter. He earned his media coverage. He had a multi-state strategy where he didn't have to rely on a one-state-or-die gimmick campaign. He ran away in Iowa like Edwards SHOULD have.

Blaming the media is just an excuse. Edwards himself is to blame for his unsuccessful campaign up to this point.

I am not saying that Edwards is done. He can win a state or two (likely Oklahoma) and still get 10% of the vote in most states. But he can and should be doing much better. And he isn't. And that's not the media's fault, that is Edwards' fault.

I realize I am going to get major criticism from the radical Edwards supporters on this site, but let's keep it civil.