Edwards Campaign's Closing Memo

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Edwards Campaign's Closing Memo

In a new internal memo outlining the campaign's planned message in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, the deputy campaign manager for former senator John Edwards (N.C.) argues that his candidate's middle-class message is working while predicting New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will spend the next week parroting the campaign tactics of the current Republican president in an attempt to frighten voters.

"We know that Senator Clinton will spend the week touting her national security credentials in a move that echoes George Bush's 2004 campaign," writes Jonathan Prince, deputy campaign manager for Edwards. "We believe Democrats will not be fooled by efforts to play on their fears."

As for Sen. Barack Obama, Prince writes that "it's no accident that Obama's criticisms of Edwards coincide with Edwards' uptick in recent polls."

The pointed criticisms of his candidate's main rivals in Iowa are part of a three-page memo that outlines Edwards's closing argument for voters in Iowa.

Over the final eight days of the Iowa campaign, Edwards is planning a series of "small round table discussions and community meetings" in the state designed to push his positive message of lifting up the middle class, writes Prince.

In truth, that's not such a major leap from the underpinnings of the Edwards campaign from its start. He's sought to paint himself as the only person whose life experiences enable him to stand up to the entrenched special interests that both he and Obama have railed against for most of the race.

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