Edwards Watch

Edwards spelled out a set of policies on health care, energy, trade and the economy that his rivals, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, later adopted. But most voters didn't hear much about Edwards, beyond the fact that his campaign had paid $400 for his haircut.

John Edwards limps into this Saturday's South Carolina primary, where polls show him running in the teens, far behind front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Even if Edwards is not ultimately the Democratic nominee, can he claim victory because other candidates copied his populist agenda? Or will his core message of hard struggle for change disappear?

Can Edwards survive a second-place Iowa finish? No.

It's true, the results in Iowa, on the Democratic side anyway, are not a straight-up polling of caucus-goers.

If you want to "Edwards Watch" by reading the big-city newspapers or watching network television, fuhgeddaboudit.

To: John Edwards
It's possible you're starting your last month of campaigning—ever.

If elected, Edwards says, he'll give Congress six months to enact universal health care, effective July 20, 2009.

Musically speaking, few songs sound more like slippery politics than Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz."

After the mainstream media builds you up, it unfailingly tries to take you down.